如何在Android Gradle中消除默认的构建变体

Question

We have already different build variants in our project (dev,qa and others), making the default variants irrelevant and confusing.

Is there a way to completely remove the default build variants, namely debug and release ? They're already generating compiler errors that won't be fixed since they won't be supported anymore. I'd like them to be completely removed from existence.

If that's not possible I'd like to make most tasks that depend on them to be obsolete as if they never existed, like assembleDebug , compileDebugSources , installDebug , testDebugUnitTest etc.

It's ok to override a couple of tasks and generate nice error messages, but I'm afraid I'd end up overriding lots of tasks.

Answer 1

Putting these on build.gradle will make most if not all references to debug variant tasks to disapear.

android.variantFilter { variant ->
    if(variant.buildType.name.equals('debug') ) {
        variant.setIgnore(true);
    }
}

It's interesting to note though that if you have another variant based on debug it will still work. For example you can still run QA variant if you have it defined this way:

buildTypes {
    qa {
        initWith debug
        . . .