androidkotlinandroid-productflavorsbuild-variant

Dependent features configured but no package ID was set. Android two apps of one project.... Admin and User


error screen while building superadmin

Hello guys, I wanted to make an android app of admin separate from user app so I decided to make a module for it .SuperAdmin is an application module.I want to make it for only admin and this error is showing while building..... This error is only showing when I am using something from default App module i.e User app .

Is there necessary to make a library between them to communicate with each other?


Solution

  • Better way to solve this is by using build variants and product flavors . Read about this here. You will doing something like this below in build.gradle

    android {
        defaultConfig {...}
        buildTypes {
            debug{...}
            release{...}
        }
        // Specifies one flavor dimension.
        flavorDimensions "type"
        productFlavors {
            user {
                dimension "type"
                applicationIdSuffix ".user" //It will be like com.example.app.user . You can remove this applicationIdSuffix property here. So it will build as com.example.app with no suffix
                versionNameSuffix "-demo"
            }
            admin {
                dimension "type"
                applicationIdSuffix ".admin" //It will be building as com.example.app.admin
                versionNameSuffix "-full"
            }
        }
    }
    

    In code , you can do conditional logics something like below.

    if(BuildConfig.FLAVOR == "user"){
    //showUserScreen or hide some button
    }else{
    //showAdminScreen or show some button
    }
    

    In build variants you will be having userDebug, userRelease , adminDebug and adminRelease for two different flavours.