However you can use the new variant API to customize some of the flags:

androidComponents {
  beforeVariant(selector().withBuildType("dev")) { variant ->
    variant.minSdk = 21
  }
}

See https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.2/com/android/build/api/variant/AndroidComponentsExtension#beforeVariant[…]lin.Function1) for more info

Hey @Xavier Ducrohet I am thinking about why

minSdk

is not a

Property<Int>

, is there any reason? I though that with the refactor it would become

Property<Int>

but I was surprised when it was still

Int

minSdk

values can impact the task graph and therefore must be read at configuration time. Because of this it cannot be dynamic using

Property

. This is also why it's read/write in

beforeVariant

and read-only in

onVariant

(because once you get to

onVariant

we need the task graph to be finalized)