# com.android.build.api.variant # com.android.build.api.variant ## Interfaces |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [AarMetadata](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/AarMetadata) | Variant object for configuring AAR metadata. | | [AndroidComponentsExtension](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/AndroidComponentsExtension) | Generic extension for Android Gradle Plugin related components. | | [AndroidResources](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/AndroidResources) | Defines a variant's aapt options. | | [AndroidTest](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/AndroidTest) | Properties for the android test Variant of a module. | | [AndroidVersion](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/AndroidVersion) | | | [AnnotationProcessor](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/AnnotationProcessor) | | | [ApkPackaging](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ApkPackaging) | Defines an APK variant's packaging options. | | [ApplicationAndroidComponentsExtension](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ApplicationAndroidComponentsExtension) | Extension for the Android Application Gradle Plugin components. | | [ApplicationVariant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ApplicationVariant) | Properties for the main Variant of an application. | | [ApplicationVariantBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ApplicationVariantBuilder) | Application specific variant object that contains properties that will determine the variant's build flow. | | [BuiltArtifact](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/BuiltArtifact) | Represents a built artifact that is present in the file system. | | [BuiltArtifacts](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/BuiltArtifacts) | Represents a[Collection](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.collections/-collection/index.html)of[BuiltArtifact](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/BuiltArtifact)produced by a[org.gradle.api.Task](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/Task.html). | | [BuiltArtifacts.TransformParams](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/BuiltArtifacts.TransformParams) | Specialized version of Gradle's[WorkParameters](https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/workers/WorkParameters.html)so we can retrieve the output file generated when transforming an instance of[BuiltArtifacts](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/BuiltArtifacts)into a new one. | | [BuiltArtifactsLoader](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/BuiltArtifactsLoader) | Facility to load[BuiltArtifacts](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/BuiltArtifacts)instances from metadata files in the file system. | | [BundleConfig](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/BundleConfig) | Information related to the actions creating a bundle (.aab) file for the variant. | | [CanMinifyAndroidResources](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/CanMinifyAndroidResources) | Interface for component that can shrink resources | | [CanMinifyAndroidResourcesBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/CanMinifyAndroidResourcesBuilder) | Interface for component builder that can shrink resources | | [CanMinifyCode](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/CanMinifyCode) | Interface for component that can minify code | | [CanMinifyCodeBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/CanMinifyCodeBuilder) | Interface for component builder that can minify code | | [CodeTransparency](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/CodeTransparency) | | | [Component](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Component) | | | [ComponentBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ComponentBuilder) | Component object that contains properties that must be set during configuration time as it changes the build flow for the variant. | | [ComponentIdentity](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ComponentIdentity) | Variant Configuration represents the identify of a variant | | [DependenciesInfo](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DependenciesInfo) | Read-only object to access dependencies information properties during com.android.build.api.variant.AndroidComponentsExtension#onVariants | | [DependenciesInfoBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DependenciesInfoBuilder) | | | [DexPackagingOptions](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DexPackagingOptions) | Defines an APK variant's packaging options for dex files. | | [DslLifecycle](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DslLifecycle) | | | [DynamicFeatureAndroidComponentsExtension](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DynamicFeatureAndroidComponentsExtension) | Extension for the Android Dynamic Feature Gradle Plugin components. | | [DynamicFeatureVariant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DynamicFeatureVariant) | | | [DynamicFeatureVariantBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DynamicFeatureVariantBuilder) | | | [ExternalNativeBuild](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ExternalNativeBuild) | Parameters to use when building native components. | | [ExternalNdkBuild](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ExternalNdkBuild) | Interface for ndk-build per-variant info. | | [FilterConfiguration](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/FilterConfiguration) | Immutable filter configuration. | | [GeneratesAar](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/GeneratesAar) | | | [GeneratesApk](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/GeneratesApk) | Cross cutting interface for[Component](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Component)subtypes that are producing APK files. | | [GeneratesApkBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/GeneratesApkBuilder) | Cross-cutting interface for components builders that produce APK files. | | [GeneratesTestApk](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/GeneratesTestApk) | | | [HasAndroidResources](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/HasAndroidResources) | | | [HasAndroidTest](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/HasAndroidTest) | Variants that optionally have instrumented tests. | | [HasAndroidTestBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/HasAndroidTestBuilder) | Interface that mark the potential existence of android tests associated with a variant. | | [HasTestFixtures](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/HasTestFixtures) | Variants that optionally have test fixtures. | | [HasTestFixturesBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/HasTestFixturesBuilder) | Interface that mark the potential existence of test fixtures associated with a variant. | | [Instrumentation](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Instrumentation) | Options to register asm class visitors and to configure the instrumentation process. | | [JavaCompilation](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/JavaCompilation) | | | [JniLibsApkPackaging](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/JniLibsApkPackaging) | Defines an APK variant's packaging options for native library (.so) files. | | [JniLibsPackaging](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/JniLibsPackaging) | Defines a variant's packaging options for native library (.so) files. | | [LibraryAndroidComponentsExtension](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/LibraryAndroidComponentsExtension) | Extension for the Android Library Gradle Plugin components. | | [LibraryVariant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/LibraryVariant) | [Variant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Variant)for Library projects | | [LibraryVariantBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/LibraryVariantBuilder) | [VariantBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantBuilder)type for library projects | | [LintLifecycleExtension](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/LintLifecycleExtension) | | | [Packaging](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Packaging) | Defines a variant's packaging options. | | [Renderscript](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Renderscript) | | | [ResValue.Key](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ResValue.Key) | a generated resource is identified by its type+name as you can create | | [ResourcesPackaging](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ResourcesPackaging) | | | [ScopedArtifacts](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ScopedArtifacts) | Scoped artifacts are artifacts that can be made available in the current variant scope, or may be optionally include the project's dependencies in the results. | | [ScopedArtifactsOperation](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ScopedArtifactsOperation) | Defines all possible operations on a[ScopedArtifact](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/artifact/ScopedArtifact)artifact type. | | [SigningConfig](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/SigningConfig) | Defines a variant's signing config. | | [SourceDirectories](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/SourceDirectories) | Defines all common behaviors to sources access in AGP. | | [SourceDirectories.Flat](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/SourceDirectories.Flat) | Represents all the source folders for a source type in the variant. | | [SourceDirectories.Layered](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/SourceDirectories.Layered) | Represent a collection of directories that have overlay properties to each other. | | [Sources](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Sources) | Provides access to all source directories for a[Variant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Variant). | | [TestAndroidComponentsExtension](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/TestAndroidComponentsExtension) | Extension for the Android Test Gradle Plugin components. | | [TestComponent](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/TestComponent) | | | [TestFixtures](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/TestFixtures) | | | [TestVariant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/TestVariant) | [Variant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Variant)for test-only modules. | | [TestVariantBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/TestVariantBuilder) | [VariantBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantBuilder)type for tests associated with a module. | | [UnitTest](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/UnitTest) | | | [Variant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Variant) | Parent interface for all types of variants. | | [VariantBuilder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantBuilder) | Variant object that contains properties that must be set during configuration time as it changes the build flow for the variant. | | [VariantExtension](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantExtension) | Marker type for[Variant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Variant)extension objects. | | [VariantExtensionConfig](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantExtensionConfig) | Configuration object passed to the lambda responsible for creating a[com.android.build.api.variant.VariantExtension](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantExtension)for each[com.android.build.api.variant.Variant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/Variant)instance. | | [VariantFilter](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantFilter) | **This interface is deprecated.**Use AndroidComponentsExtension.beforeVariants API to disable specific variants | | [VariantInfo](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantInfo) | **This interface is deprecated.** | | [VariantOutput](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantOutput) | Defines a variant output. | | [VariantOutputConfiguration](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantOutputConfiguration) | | | [VariantSelector](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantSelector) | Selector to reduce the number of variants that are of interests when calling any of the variant API like[AndroidComponentsExtension.beforeVariants](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/AndroidComponentsExtension#beforeVariants(com.android.build.api.variant.VariantSelector,kotlin.Function1)). | ## Classes |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [BuildConfigField](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/BuildConfigField) | Field definition for the generated BuildConfig class. | | [DslExtension](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DslExtension) | Third party DSL extension configuration. | | [DslExtension.Builder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DslExtension.Builder) | Creates a[Builder](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DslExtension.Builder)to instance to create a[DslExtension](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/DslExtension)containing all desired extension points to the Android Gradle Plugin DSL. | | [ResValue](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ResValue) | Resource to be generated by the build system. | ## Enums |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [FilterConfiguration.FilterType](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/FilterConfiguration.FilterType) | Split dimension type | | [ScopedArtifacts.Scope](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/ScopedArtifacts.Scope) | Defines possible scopes. | | [VariantOutputConfiguration.OutputType](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.0/com/android/build/api/variant/VariantOutputConfiguration.OutputType) | Type of package file, either the main APK or a full split APK file containing resources for a particular split dimension. |