Gradle is the official build tool for Android Apps. This talk covers some basics on Gradle build scripts and shows some sample tasks you can have in your project build.
• Fast - employs caching, incremental, *parallel builds etc • Powerful - supports popular languages and technologies open-source build and automation tool
included • build.gradle (project-level) - configurations for all modules in the project e.g. • build.gradle (module-level) - configures build settings for the module • *gradle.properties - project-wide Gradle settings e.g. caching, daemon max heap size etc • **local.properties - local environment properties for the build system e.g. local sdk, ndk paths