You need to add this res folder for your sourceset. You should be able to do
android.applicationsVariants.all { variant ->
android.sourceSets.get(variant.name
).res.srcDir('path/to/generated/res/folder')
}
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Patrick Boos <patrickboo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thank you Xavier for this great solution! Now a follow up question that
> should be easy to answer I hope. How can I actually get those generated
> files into the built .apk? We are generating pngs from svgs that we put
> into "build/generated/res/svg/${variant.dirName}/drawable-[x]{0,3}hdpi/"
> folders. But they do not get picked up automatically as we guessed. How can
> we get them picked up?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 8:34:52 PM UTC+1, Xavier Ducrohet wrote:
>>
>> You should use:
>>
>> "/build/generated/res/something/${variant.dirName}/xml/"
>>
>> dirName will ensure that the folder (and subfolders) is unique. There is
>> nothing to handle "something" though, so make sure you put something unique.
>>
>> Our scheme is res/<task or type>/variant.dirName/
>>
>> where <task or type> depend on what the folder is for. "rs" stands for
>> renderscript. This will be the res folder where the renderscript task drops
>> its .bc file which is the compiled renderscript code.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Pierre Degand <pierre...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to generate some files at build time (an XML file and then
>>> add a reference to this XML into the Manifest of my app).
>>>
>>> I suppose the /build/generated/ folder is the place to put this kind of
>>> generated files.
>>>
>>> After studying how this folder works, with the `wearApp(':wear')`
>>> dependency, I learned that I should put my generated XML file into
>>> /build/generated/res/something/rs/flavorA/release/xml/
>>>
>>>
>>> but I don't want to hard code this path into my build script. Is there a
>>> way to retrieve this path dynamically, based on the current variant for
>>> example, without having to do something like
>>> "/build/generated/res/something/${variant.flavor}/${
>>> variant.buildType}/xml/"
>>>
>>>
>>> On a more generic side, how is the "something" part of the path used
>>> during the resource merging ? And why is there a "rs" part in the path ?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for the explanations.
>>>
>>> Pierre D.
>>>
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