* gradle plugin: arguments support for launch* tasks #789
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These changes allows to pass arguments to application, when launching it on device/simulator similar to arguments field in Idea run/debug configuration. Beside debug/specific cases this is also required to enable debug mode of Crashlytics: https://firebase.google.com/docs/crashlytics/test-implementation?platform=ios
Custom commands are supported since Gradle v5.
Usage as simple as:
./gradlew launchIPhoneSimulator --info --args "'hello world'"
String passed in
--args
is then tokenized into individual arguments, e.g.--args="one two"
will produce two arguments in args array ["one", "two"], if spaces to be considered as part of argument, quotation to be used.Gradle also propagate option description to help command: