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Android: Different permissions for different flavors

I have An app with tow flavors ... only one of them needs some permissions. How can I request these permissions only for this flavor during building apk?

These are the permissions needed:

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PROFILE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
Solution

  • For the purposes of this answer, I assume that you have two product flavors, chocolate and vanilla. The chocolate one is the one that needs the additional permissions.

    Step #1: In src/main/AndroidManifest.xml, put the <uses-permission> elements that are in common between all the flavors

    Step #2: Create src/chocolate/, a source set that will hold source that will only be used for chocolate builds, not vanilla builds

    Step #3: In src/chocolate/AndroidManifest.xml, inside an otherwise-empty <manifest> element, put the <uses-permission> elements that chocolate needs that vanilla does not

    Now, your chocolate builds will have all of the permissions, while vanilla builds will only have those from the main manifest.