Android Studio: How to exclude google-services module in product flavor?

Question

In my Android project, there are several product flavors:

buildTypes {
    release {}
    debug {}
    staging {}
}

productFlavors {
    freeVersion {}
             


        

Answer 1

Please notice the use of freeCompile and declaring a variable flavor to conditionally apply the plugin.

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

def flavor

android {

    ....

    ....

    productFlavors {
        free {
            applicationId "com.anandbibek.builditbigger.free"
            flavor = "free"
        }
        paid {
            applicationId "com.anandbibek.builditbigger.paid"
            flavor = "paid"
        }
    }
}

dependencies {

    // Added for AdMob
    freeCompile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-ads:9.6.1'

    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.2.1'
    compile 'com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:2.0.1'

}
if(flavor == "free") {
    apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
}

Make sure you put the google-services.json file in flavor specific folder. In my case, I put that in app/src/free only . This facility is available when you use classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.0.0' in your main project gradle file.