EDIT:
Wrote advanced gradle task for you:
final List<String> exclusions = [];
Dependency.metaClass.exclude = { String[] currentExclusions ->
currentExclusions.each {
exclusions.add("${getGroup()}/${getName()}/${getVersion()}/${it}")
}
return thisObject
}
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
compile ('com.android.support:appcompat-v7:20.+')
debugCompile ('com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android:1.3.1')
.exclude("res/values-v21/values-v21.xml")
releaseCompile ('com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android-no-op:1.3.1')
}
tasks.create("excludeTask") << {
exclusions.each {
File file = file("${buildDir}/intermediates/exploded-aar/${it}")
println("Excluding file " + file)
if (file.exists()) {
file.delete();
}
}
}
tasks.whenTaskAdded({
if (it.name.matches(/^process.*Resources$/)) {
it.dependsOn excludeTask
}
})
Now you can use method .exclude()
on each dependency, providing into list of paths, you want to exclude from specified dependency.
Also, you can stack the .exclude()
method calls.