Create multiple flavors of an Android app using gradle script

I’ve been asked sometimes on how to work with different hosts, different icons, or even different package names, deppending on different versions of the same app.

There are lot of reasons to do this and one easy way to go: Product Flavors.

Product Flavor is a very powerful feature available in the Android gradle plugin that allows us to manage different “flavors” of an application.

In this blog, we are going to learn, how to design and build a single application with multiple flavors, which can be pushed to the Play Store and deployed on the same device simultaneously.

You can use the productFlavors closure of your app/build.gradle file to define different variants of your product.

In addition to flavors, there is another very important concept regarding building android apps, called “build types”.

Once the changes have been made on app/build.gradle file, a yellow warning bar will appear across the…