Android and the new gradle build system

Unity Engine
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Hi,

First, we’re really happy to see that unity finally uses gradle to build Android apk.

Now I want to test this feature and use it to tweak our build process, depending on environment for example.

So I have a simple question, how can we provide a custom build.gradle file ?

We’d like to add some dexOptions, repositories, aar dependencies…

Thanks

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That is not supported in the first version. But…
The templates used for creating the build.gradle files are in PlaybackEngines/AndroidPlayer/Tools/GradleTemplates
inside the Unity application directory, so as a hack in the current version you can try changing the mainTemplate.gradle directly*.*

Most likely we will add support for providing your own template inside your project in an upcoming patch release.

– Jonas

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Ok thanks, this is really more than a nice to have feature, especially if you think that we want to use cloudbuild.