Gradle

Gradle is a powerful, open-source build automation tool primarily used for Java, Kotlin, and Android development.
It’s designed to automate the entire software development lifecycle, handling tasks like compiling, packaging, testing, and deploying applications.

• Gradle excels at managing complex projects and offers features like build scans for performance analysis and a configuration cache for faster builds.
• Gradle’s build scripts are written in Groovy or Kotlin DSL, allowing for highly customized build logic.

Table of Contents

• Gradle
• Installation
• Dependency Configurations
• buildscript

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Installation

Gradle can be installed via various methods, including downloading binaries or using package managers like SDKMAN!

gradle properties

Dependency Configurations

Every dependency declared for a Gradle project applies to a specific scope.
reference from official doc here

What’s the difference between implementation, api and compile in Gradle? Reference article here

• compile is old way
• “implementation” dependency in your module, it will appear only as runtimeClasspath dependency in customer modules.
• “api” dependency in your module, it will appear as both runtimeClasspath and compileClasspath in consumer modules.

What is the new replacement keyword for deprecated keywords in new gradle?

• compile with implementation (if you don’t need transitivity) or api (if you need transitivity)
• testCompile with testImplementation
• debugCompile with debugImplementation
• androidTestCompile with androidTestImplementation
• compileOnly is still valid.
  • It was added in 3.0 to replace provided and not compile.
  • provided introduced when Gradle didn’t have a configuration name for that use-case and named it after Maven’s provided scope.

buildscript

How to download javadocs and sources for jar using Gradle 2.0?

Reference article here