Gradle dependency based on both build type and flavor

Android Plugin for Gradle 3.x.x

Build plugin 3.x.x uses variant-aware dependency resolution so devDebug variant of an app module will automatically use devDebug variant of its library module dependency. To answer the question, this would be enough:

implementation project(':common')

Read more here: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/dependencies.html#variant_aware

Original answer

I was able to find a solution here: https://github.com/JakeWharton/u2020/blob/master/build.gradle

More on why my original code does not suffice is available here: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=162285

Working solution:

configurations {
  pubDebugCompile
  devDebugCompile
  pubReleaseCompile
  devReleaseCompile
}

dependencies {
  pubReleaseCompile project(path: ':common', configuration: "pubRelease")
  devReleaseCompile project(path: ':common', configuration: "devRelease")
  pubDebugCompile project(path: ':common', configuration: "pubDebug")
  devDebugCompile project(path: ':common', configuration: "devDebug")
}