feat: overrideRuntimeGradleFiles option

Author: farfromrefug

lib/declarations.d.ts

@@ -582,6 +582,7 @@ interface IAndroidOptions {
 	gradleFlavor: string;
 	gradlePath: string;
 	gradleArgs: string[];
+	overrideRuntimeGradleFiles: boolean;
 }
 
 interface ITypingsOptions {

lib/options.ts

@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ export class Options {
 				hasSensitiveValue: false,
 			},
 			flavor: { type: OptionType.String, hasSensitiveValue: false },
+			overrideRuntimeGradleFiles: { type: OptionType.Boolean, hasSensitiveValue: false },
 			gradlePath: { type: OptionType.String, hasSensitiveValue: false },
 			gradleArgs: { type: OptionType.String, hasSensitiveValue: false, array: true },
 			aab: { type: OptionType.Boolean, hasSensitiveValue: false },

lib/services/android-project-service.ts

@@ -357,15 +357,15 @@ export class AndroidProjectService extends projectServiceBaseLib.PlatformProject
 			"*",
 			"-R"
 		);
-
-		// override app build.gradle from cli vendor to allow updates faster than the runtime
-		const gradleTemplatePath = path.resolve(
-			path.join(__dirname, "../../vendor/gradle-app")
-		);
-		const allGradleTemplateFiles = path.join(gradleTemplatePath, "*");
-
-		this.$fs.copyFile(allGradleTemplateFiles, path.join(this.getPlatformData(projectData).projectRoot));
-
+		if (this.$options.overrideRuntimeGradleFiles !== false) {
+			// override app build.gradle from cli vendor to allow updates faster than the runtime
+			const gradleTemplatePath = path.resolve(
+				path.join(__dirname, "../../vendor/gradle-app")
+			);
+			const allGradleTemplateFiles = path.join(gradleTemplatePath, "*");
+	
+			this.$fs.copyFile(allGradleTemplateFiles, path.join(this.getPlatformData(projectData).projectRoot));
+		}
 		// TODO: Check if we actually need this and if it should be targetSdk or compileSdk
 		this.cleanResValues(targetSdkVersion, projectData);
 	}