# CanMinifyAndroidResources

# CanMinifyAndroidResources

[View Source](https://cs.android.com/search?q=file:com/android/build/api/variant/CanMinifyAndroidResources.kt+class:com.android.build.api.variant.CanMinifyAndroidResources)  
Added in 7.4.1  

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```
@Incubating
interface CanMinifyAndroidResources
```

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Known direct subclasses  
[ApplicationVariant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.9/com/android/build/api/variant/ApplicationVariant)  

|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [ApplicationVariant](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.9/com/android/build/api/variant/ApplicationVariant) | Model for application components that only contains build-time properties. |

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Build-time properties for[Component](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.9/com/android/build/api/variant/Component)that can minify Android resources.

## Summary

|                               ### Public properties                                |
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| [Boolean](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-boolean/index.html) | [shrinkResources](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.9/com/android/build/api/variant/CanMinifyAndroidResources#shrinkResources()) Specifies whether resources will be shrinked. |

## Public properties

### shrinkResources

Added in 7.4.1  

```
val shrinkResources: Boolean
```

Specifies whether resources will be shrinked. At this point the value is final. You can change it via[AndroidComponentsExtension.beforeVariants](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.9/com/android/build/api/variant/AndroidComponentsExtension#beforeVariants(com.android.build.api.variant.VariantSelector,kotlin.Function1))and[CanMinifyAndroidResourcesBuilder.shrinkResources](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.9/com/android/build/api/variant/CanMinifyAndroidResourcesBuilder#shrinkResources())