Uploading Symbol files for Android NDK crash reports automatically - firebase

Question

I am using Crashlytic sdk for collecting Android NDK crash reports. Please find the configuration file below.
It works well if I run the following command:
./gradlew crashlyticsUploadSymbolsXXXRelease
Also, If I add assembleXXXRelease.finalizedBy(crashlyticsUploadSymbolsXXXRelease) to afterEvaluate block, the symbol files also are uploaded after each build.
Here are my questions:
I want this uploading process to be automatic. The issue I am facing is the finalizedBy way will added around 10 more minutes to the build time, which is I have to avoid. I prefer to create a new task and invoke it somewhere else after each build, so the APK build time will stay the same as now. I tried to do so, but it seems not working. See the code below. If you have any clue or I missed something, please let me know.
Is that possible to override the NDK output path based on different flavor? I tried to get the flavor XXX from task name like assbleXXXRelease, and assign it to the output path like XXX/obj, but failed. It seems the flavor has been fixed to the default flavor.
Is that possible that I can pick up the cSYM symbols files and upload to Crashlytics without Crashlytic sdk?
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'io.fabric'
// Question 2 will be happening here:
crashlytics {
enableNdk true
androidNdkOut "obj" // override the path based on the flavor name to flavorName/obj?
androidNdkLibsOut "libs" // override the path based on the flavor name to flavorName/libs?
}
dependencies {
// ...
implementation 'com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.10.1'
// Add the Crashlytics NDK dependency
implementation 'com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics-ndk:2.1.1'
}
// Question 1 will be happening here:
// If I call this task from command line, it won't work. Nothing will happen.
task upload {
doLast {
crashlyticsUploadSymbolsXXXRelease
}
}
afterEvaluate {project ->
android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
assembleXXXRelease.finalizedBy(crashlyticsUploadSymbolsXXXRelease) // it works here
}
}

Answer 1

I want this uploading process to be automatic. The issue I am facing is the finalizedBy way will added around 10 more minutes to the build time, which is I have to avoid. I prefer to create a new task and invoke it somewhere else after each build, so the APK build time will stay the same as now. I tried to do so, but it seems not working.
I solved this by modifying the task as follows:
task upload {
doLast {
// do something whatever
}
}
upload.finalizedBy(crashlyticsUploadSymbolsXXXRelease)
Is that possible to override the NDK output path based on different flavor? I tried to get the flavor XXX from task name like assbleXXXRelease, and assign it to the output path like XXX/obj, but failed. It seems the flavor has been fixed to the default flavor.
I have made this work to get the current flavor name by calling
gradle.startParameter.taskName[0]
Is that possible that I can pick up the cSYM symbols files and upload to Crashlytics without Crashlytic sdk?
I have not yet found a solution for this.

Answer 2

I want this uploading process to be automatic. The issue I am facing is the finalizedBy way will added around 10 more minutes to the build time, which is I have to avoid. I prefer to create a new task and invoke it somewhere else after each build, so the APK build time will stay the same as now.
I created a Gradle project that allows exactly that: uploading Firebase Crashlytics NDK symbols independent from the build process of your app.
You can check it out here:
https://github.com/triplef/android-upload-ndk-symbols