在产品风格中启用/禁用ProGuard

Question

So, I know that in the build type the runProguard 'bool' directive can be used to tell whether ProGuard should be run or not. Unfortunately this directive does not work on the product flavors. Is there any way to specify if ProGuard should or not run in the flavors? I have thought of using a configuration file which basically says "do nothing", but (1) I don't know what should I write in it to forbid ProGuard from doing absolutely anything and (2) I don't think it's a good solution.

Answer 1

For your scenario, it feels like you are trying to model different phases of your development lifecycle. That's really where build types are for. While Gradle (and hence Gradle for Android) ships with debug and release build types, you can define your own:

buildTypes {
    debug {
      applicationIdSuffix ".d"
      versionNameSuffix "-debug"
    }

    release {
        signingConfig signingConfigs.release
    }

    mezzanine.initWith(buildTypes.release)

    mezzanine {
        applicationIdSuffix ".mezz"
        debuggable true
    }
}

Here, I:

• Configure the debug and release build types

• Clone a mezzanine build type from release

• Override some settings on mezzanine , replacing what they had been defined as originally on release