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I got a bunch of tests and debug stuff in my Dart application and I would like to make sure these kind of things are disabled when I build a release version with pub.

Is there any constant or some other way to check if the current running version of the application is a release build or not?

Example:

if (!IS_BUILD) {
   performAutomatedDummyLogin()
} else {
   login();
}
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Code in assert(...); is only executed in checked (development) mode. When you run in release mode or build in release mode this code isn't executed.

bool isRelease = true;
assert(() {
  isRelease = false;
  return true;
});

if(isRelease) {
 ...
}

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Günter Zöchbauer
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    If you change the boolean to be `isChecked`, you can make it shorter: `bool isChecked = false; assert((isChecked = true));`. But then, you can still avoid the extra function syntax for `isRelease` by doing `assert(!(isRelease = false))`; – lrn Apr 13 '15 at 07:55
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    Right, I tried to make it obvious that the expression needs to return `true`. – Günter Zöchbauer Apr 13 '15 at 07:58
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    Pedagogical reasons is an excellent argument, so take my comment as extra hints for those of us to like to optimization for size :) – lrn Apr 13 '15 at 08:12