Allow "packagingOptions" to be defined per build type/variant [69953968]

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fr...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Nov 30, 2017 02:19PM

Gradle version: 4.1
Android Plugin Version: 3.0.1
Module Compile Sdk Version: 27
Module Build Tools Version: 27.0.1
Android SDK Tools version: 26.1.1

It would be great if we could define packagingOptions per buildType. Our use case is to avoid stripping native libraries for profiling, but keep stripping for release. There may be more.

Sample for Simpleperf tool adds packagingOptions inside a build type:

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/extras/+/master/simpleperf/demo/SimpleperfExampleWithNative/app/profiling.gradle

But when used this way, the debug info is kept also for debug and release build type, which is undesirable.

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uc...@google.com <uc...@google.com> Nov 30, 2017 08:31PM

Assigned to xa...@google.com.

ax...@gmail.com <ax...@gmail.com> #2Sep 7, 2019 01:47AM

Another use case for this is being able to exclude some specific native libraries on a per-flavor basis.
The alternative is to specify externalNativeBuild.cmake.targets for each productFlavor, but this causes common libraries to be built multiple times which is undesirable.

xa...@google.com <xa...@google.com> #3Sep 25, 2019 11:18PM

Yes we want to do this. It's going to be a little while before we can do this cleaning from an API/DSL but we are currently working toward making this possible.

vi...@gmail.com <vi...@gmail.com> #4Feb 5, 2020 08:49PM

This would help out React Native and RN-based apps, where we'd like to conditionally exclude one of two supported JSVMs and related native libraries.

xa...@google.com <xa...@google.com> Apr 30, 2020 06:02PM

Reassigned to sp...@google.com.

sp...@google.com <sp...@google.com> #5Mar 23, 2021 04:15PM

Marked as fixed.

This is possible now. You can set packagingOptions per buildType or variant like so:

androidComponents {
    onVariants(selector().withBuildType("debug"), {
        packaging.dex.useLegacyPackaging.set(false)
        packaging.jniLibs.excludes.add('**/excludeMe.so')
        packaging.resources.excludes.add('**/excludeMe.txt')
    }
    onVariants(selector().withName("fooDebug"), {
        packaging.dex.useLegacyPackaging.set(false)
        packaging.jniLibs.excludes.add('**/excludeMe.so')
        packaging.resources.excludes.add('**/excludeMe.txt')
    }
}

Issue 69953968