# com.android.build.api.artifact # com.android.build.api.artifact ## Interfaces |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [Artifact.Appendable](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact.Appendable) | Denotes an artifact type that can be appended to. | | [Artifact.ContainsMany](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact.ContainsMany) | Denotes a single[DIRECTORY](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact.Companion#DIRECTORY())that may contain zero to many[com.android.build.api.variant.BuiltArtifact](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/variant/BuiltArtifact). | | [Artifact.Replaceable](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact.Replaceable) | Denotes an artifact type that can be replaced. | | [Artifact.Transformable](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact.Transformable) | Denotes an artifact type that can transformed. | | [ArtifactTransformationRequest](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/ArtifactTransformationRequest) | When a[Directory](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/Directory.html)contains more than one artifact (for example, consider[SingleArtifact.APK](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/SingleArtifact.APK)with multiple APKs for different screen densities), this object will abstract away having to deal with[BuiltArtifacts](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/variant/BuiltArtifacts)and manually load and write the metadata files. | | [Artifacts](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifacts) | Access to the artifacts on a Variant object. | | [CombiningOperationRequest](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/CombiningOperationRequest) | | | [InAndOutDirectoryOperationRequest](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/InAndOutDirectoryOperationRequest) | | | [InAndOutFileOperationRequest](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/InAndOutFileOperationRequest) | Operations performed by a[Task](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/Task.html)with a single[RegularFile](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/RegularFile.html)or[Directory](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/Directory.html)output. | | [OutOperationRequest](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/OutOperationRequest) | Operations performed by a[Task](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/Task.html)with a single[RegularFile](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/RegularFile.html)or[Directory](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/Directory.html)output. | | [TaskBasedOperation](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/TaskBasedOperation) | Interface with methods to wire input and output method references to[Task](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/Task.html)-based operations. | ## Classes |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [Artifact](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact) | Defines a type of artifact handled by the Android Gradle Plugin. | | [Artifact.Multiple](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact.Multiple) | Denotes possible multiple[FileSystemLocation](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/FileSystemLocation.html)instances for this artifact type. | | [Artifact.Single](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact.Single) | Denotes a single[FileSystemLocation](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/file/FileSystemLocation.html)instance of this artifact type at a given time. | | [ArtifactKind](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/ArtifactKind) | Exhaustive list of artifact file representations supported by the Android Gradle plugin. | | [MultipleArtifact](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/MultipleArtifact) | Public[Artifact](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact)for Android Gradle plugin. | | [ScopedArtifact](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/ScopedArtifact) | List of ScopedArtifacts.Scope artifacts. | | [SingleArtifact](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/SingleArtifact) | Public[Artifact](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact)for Android Gradle plugin. | ## Enums |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [Artifact.Category](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.4/com/android/build/api/artifact/Artifact.Category) | Defines the kind of artifact type. this will be used to determine the output file location for instance. |