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Gradle
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Notes based on Udacity Gradle course

What is Gradle?
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Installing Gradle
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Get Gradle from https://gradle.org/install/

Extract to C:\Gradle\gradle-<V>.<R>

Basics Concepts
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build.gradle
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``build.gradle`` is the default build script to be used.
For using another script by specifying `-b` flag with the build file name

Quite mode
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.. code:: groovy

    gradle -q

Runs gradle in quite mode so only error messages are shown

Project
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Every build script can be think of as for one project. It literaly contains the data for that projects like tasks

Task
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Task is the central concept to gradle. A project build process have several tasks and it has several other properites

.. code:: groovy

    task hello {
        description "Task description"
        group "Task group name"
        doLast {
            println "Hello, Task!"
        }
    }

List all tasks
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.. code:: groovy

    gradle tasks --all


dependsOn
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e.g.,

.. code:: groovy

    task putOnSocks {
        doLast {
            println "Putting on Socks."
        }
    }

    task putOnShoes {
        dependsOn "putOnSocks"
        doLast {
            println "Putting on Shoes."
        }
    }

finalizedBy
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When run eatBreadkFast afterwards brushYourTeeth task is also run

.. code:: groovy

    task eatBreakFast {
        finalizedBy "brushYourTeeth"
        doLast {
            println "Eating breakfast"
        }
    }

    task brushYourTeeth {
        doLast {
            println "Brushing..."
        }
    }

mustRunAfter
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Include jars from local directory
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.. code:: groovy
   
   compile fileTree(dir: 'libs' include: ['*.jar'])