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signingConfigs: Contains information like key alias, alias password, keystore path etc.


Signing configs with gradle android (Example)
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defaultConfig: It contains some properties like applicationId, minSdkVersion, targetSdkVersion, versionCode, versionName, multiDexEnables.
applicationId: Its your package name for creating application, we require this tag, if you are creating library we didn’t use this tag.
minSdkVersion: If we remember Eclipse IDE we create this entry in manifest file which prevent .apk to install below this version. Its now move to .gradle
targetSdkVersion: SDK version used for development
If you want to install same application more than one time this will only possible after changing versionCode and versionName .
versionCode: Integer value used by playstore to check while uploading build, it must be greater than existing .apk in playstore.
versionName: String value display to end user in App info section.
defaultConfig {
applicationId "xxx.xxxxxx.xxx"
minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion
versionCode rootProject.ext.versionCode
//client 2.0
versionName rootProject.ext.versionName
// Enabling multidex support.
multiDexEnabled true
resConfigs "en", "fr","xhdpi"}
lintOptions: To make changes on lint
lintOptions {
// set to true to turn off analysis progress reporting by lint
quiet true
// if true, stop the gradle build if errors are found
abortOnError false
// if true, only report errors
ignoreWarnings true
}
buildTypes: It provides information regarding release and debug version of apk.
minifyEnabled: It turns on proguard in android project, which is effective in reducing .apk size and make De-compilation difficult.
proguardFiles: As enabling proguard remove some classes,methods so to keep these classes we make keep the tag in proguard-android.txt.
shrinkResources: It is useful to remove unused resources from .apk like entries in res directory.
buildTypes {
debug {