Is it possible to declare a variable in Gradle usable in Java?

Question

Is it possible to declare a variable in Gradle usable in Java ? Basically I would like to declare some vars in the build.gradle and then getting it (obviously) at build time

Answer 1

rciovati's answer is entirely correct I just wanted to add one more tidbit that you can also create variables for every build type within the default config portion of your build.gradle. This would look like this:

android {
    defaultConfig {
        buildConfigField "String", "APP_NAME", "\"APP_NAME\""
    }
}

This will allow you to have access to through

BuildConfig.App_NAME

Just wanted to make a note of this scenario as well if you want a common config.