CICD Integration with Gradle

Product Science suggests two main approach for integration Gradle plugin in CICD.

Build Variant

• Example App
• Example GitHub workflow
• Build Variant docs

This approach is based on Gradle build variant. A build variant psiRelease is created for instrumented version of the app. PS Plugin is applied only for this build variant.

GroovyKotlin DSL

app/build.gradle

plugins {
    id 'com.android.application'
    id 'kotlin-android'
}

apply plugin: "com.productscience.transformer.plugin" 

productScience {
    psiRelease {
        enabled true
    }
}

android {
    defaultConfig { ... }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            ...
        }

        psiRelease {
            ...
        }
    }
}

app/build.gradle

plugins {
    id("com.android.application")
    id("kotlin-android")
    id("com.productscience.transformer.plugin")
}

productScience {
    create("psiRelease") {
        isEnabled = true
    }
}

android {
    ...
    buildTypes {
        create("psiRelease") {
            ...
        }

        getByName("debug") {
            ...
        }
    }
}

Build can be triggered with gradle command:

./gradlew assemblePsiRelease

Conditional plugin apply

• Example App
• Example GitHub workflow

This approach is based on conditional applying of gradle plugin. PS Plugin is applied only when the value of USE_PSTOOL environment variable is true.

GroovyKotlin DSL

app/build.gradle

plugins {
    id 'com.android.application'
    id 'kotlin-android'
}

if (System.getenv("USE_PSTOOL")) {
    apply plugin: "com.productscience.transformer.plugin" 
}

Build can be triggered with gradle command:

USE_PSTOOL=true ./gradlew assembleRelease

app/build.gradle

plugins {
    id("com.android.application")
    id("kotlin-android")

    val usePSPlugin: Boolean = System.getenv("USE_PSTOOL").toBoolean()
    if (usePSPlugin) {
        id("com.productscience.transformer.plugin")
    }
}

Build can be triggered with gradle command:

USE_PSTOOL=true ./gradlew assembleRelease