If you google for this question, you’ll find a bunch of crap answers about creating tasks and checking the task graph, bullshit.<\/p>\n
All you need to do is check if a parameter has been passed to gradle. 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\n<\/strong><\/p>\nandroid {<\/code> section starts)<\/p>\n.\/gradlew assembleRelease<\/code> you do:<\/p>\n