Rock the Gradle, Rule the World

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1. Rock the Gradle Rule the world
2. About… Lead Android Engineer at WorkWell Fluent in Android since Cupcake 2
3. A brief introduction 1
4. Dependency Management System What is Gradle General Purpose Build management 4
5. 5 General purpose Language agnostic Feature agnostic
6. 6 Dependency management system Knows how to graph and resolve dependencies ◇ code ◇ tasks ◇ …
7. 7 Build management Based on tasks created by plugins
8. Configuration Gradle flow Initialisation Execution 8
9. 9 Initialisation Launches the JVM (with proper params) Analyse the working directory Reads the settings.gradle file Creates the Project object(s) that will be used Compiles, test and add buildSrc to the classpath
10. 10 Configuration Execute all the build.gradle scripts in the project Create all the Task objects and configure the Project object(s) Resolves the tasks dependencies
11. 11 Execution List the Task to run based on the invocation (and their dependencies) Execute each of the tasks
12. Meet the buildSrc folder 2
13. Project structure ┬ MyProject ├┬ app/ │├── src/ │└── build.gradle ├┬ buildSrc/ │├── src/ │├── build.gradle │└── settings.gradle ├─ build.gradle └─ settings.gradle 13
14. Purposes… ◇ Better dependency management ◇ Helper classes / methods ◇ Custom tasks in dedicated classes ◇ Custom plugin ￭ Locally versionned with the project 14
15. How does it work? ◇ Works like any module in your project ◇ Compiled and tested before any gradle task ◇ Groovy, Java, Kotlin, … ◇ Any public class / method becomes availble in gradle scripts 15
16. “ A change in buildSrc causes the whole project to become out-of-date. 16
17. apply plugin: 'groovy' dependencies { compile gradleApi() compile localGroovy() } 17 Default build.gradle
18. Writin a Plugin 3
19. Hands On 19
20. Thanks! Any questions? ◇ https://github.com/xgouchet/RockTheGradle ◇ @xgouchet 20