Gradle¶

Notes based on Udacity Gradle course

What is Gradle?¶

Installing Gradle¶

Get Gradle from https://gradle.org/install/

Extract to C:Gradlegradle-<V>.<R>

Basics Concepts¶

build.gradle¶

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¶

gradle -q

Runs gradle in quite mode so only error messages are shown

Project¶

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

Task¶

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

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

List all tasks¶

gradle tasks --all

dependsOn¶

e.g.,

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

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

finalizedBy¶

When run eatBreadkFast afterwards brushYourTeeth task is also run

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

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

mustRunAfter¶

Include jars from local directory¶

compile fileTree(dir: 'libs' include: ['*.jar'])