Get introduced to Gradle, the automation tool used in Android development and build scripting for JVM projects. Learn how to define logic, run tasks, execute builds, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Automate everything
- What you should know
- What is Gradle?
- Installing Gradle
- Hello world
- Gradle's domain-specific language
- Using the Gradle Wrapper
- Executing Gradle from the IDE
- Build files and conventions
- Defining and configuring a task
- The directed acyclic graph (DAG)
- Build lifecycle phases
- Applying reusable functionality with plugins
- Domain object runtime representation
- Referencing the documentation
- Challenge: Define and execute a task
- Solution: Define and execute a task
- Next steps
Taught by
Benjamin Muschko
