• Downloading and Installing Gradle. Gradle runs on all major operating systems and requires a Java JDK version 7 or higher to run.
  • # Gradle v2 # Build using a Gradle wrapper script. - task: Gradle@2 inputs: gradleWrapperFile: 'gradlew' # string. Alias: wrapperScript.
  • Unlike Ant and Maven which use XML for scripting, Gradle uses Groovy, a Domain Specific Language that’s a subset of Java with plenty of syntactic sugar.
  • In this Gradle Build Script tutorial you’ll learn the basic syntax in build.gradle files generated by Android Studio.
  • create a single Jar with all dependencies task fatJar(type: Jar) { manifest {. attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'Gradle Jar File Example'
  • Conclusions. Download the Gradle Scripts. Gradle Properties: Build and Configuration Example. Why should we use Gradle Properties?
  • Gradle user home. Use this field to specify the location for Gradle to store its global configuration properties, initialization scripts, caches, log files, and so on.
  • Gradle comes with various built-in plugins. A custom plugin can also be built in any JVM based language. A Gradle plugin is a group of tasks.
  • What is hard is to find an overview of this information: you can create your own settings, Gradle has its own, Kotlin its own, Android its own
  • Why is Gradle Needed? Every Android project needs a Gradle for generating an apk from the .java and .xml files in the project.