Building Scalable White-Label Android Apps with Gradle Flavors and Azure Pipelines | WillowTree

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A solution may seem manageable with one or two different variants but could easily turn into an unmaintainable and expensive mess when we start adding more. Gradle provides us with a feature called flavors to save us from a tangled web of branching logic in our codebase. In addition to these Gradle properties we can override any part of our main source set by creating a parallel folder for that flavor. This makes adding new stations to our app trivial and less risky since we do not need to modify our common source code. Creating a new variant would just involve a few lines in our Azure Pipelines YAML file and defining a new variable group.

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