androidgreendaoandroid-productflavors

greenDAO for only one flavor of the app

I use greenDAO just in one flavor of the app, and I would like to avoid adding the dependency to the flavor that does not use it so that application is not bloated.

The problem that I'm having is that apply plugin: 'org.greenrobot.greendao' is applied for both flavors which causes build script to fail for the flavor that does not use greenDAO.

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'org.greenrobot.greendao'    

android {
   ...
    productFlavors {
        lite {
            ...    
        }
        pro {
            ...
        }
    }
}    

greendao {
   schemaVersion 1
}    

dependencies {
    proCompile 'org.greenrobot:greendao:3.2.0'
}

How could I solve this, any idea?

EDIT:

To be more specific, it looks like greenDAO builds all classes marked with @Entity even if they are in different flavor and puts them into folder \build\generated\source\greendao\com\test\app\database This causes build errors as classes can not be found (which of course could not be, as they are defined in different flavor).

Solution

  • Currently greenDao does not support this. The bug regarding this is open on their issue tracker on GitHub and let's hope it will be addressed soon.

    Link to the issue: https://github.com/greenrobot/greenDAO/issues/587