Chapter 4. Creating Build Variants
When you are developing an app, you usually have a few different versions. The most common scenario is that you have a staging version that is used to manually test the app and assure its quality, and a production version. These versions usually have different settings. For example, the URL of the staging API can be different from the production API. In addition, you may have a free basic version of your app, and a paid version that has some extra features. In that case, you are already dealing with four different versions: staging free, staging paid, production free, and production paid. Having different configurations for every version can easily get very complicated.
Gradle has some convenient and extensible ...
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