Gradle

Gradle is a build automation for android development; It takes all the project configuration to generate an APK .

Ways to define gradle files

Gradle groovy
Gradle Kotlin

Gradle files

build.gradle (project)

• You can have more of this if you have a multi-module project
• Contains configuration about the project

build.gradle (:app)

• Android compile configurations

Build Types

It allows you to handle configurations for different app lifecycles i.e a develop or release versions. This can set environment varaibles and configurations.

buildTypes {
	release {
		minifyEnabled true
		applicationIdSuffix ".release"
	}
	custom {
	}
}

Product flavour

Allows you to overwrite app configurations and it mixes with the build types, so if you have a debug,release build types and you want to create a version of the app that uses a top-level sdk version without leaving support for an older API you can create a flavour, so you'll end up with:

• minSDK30Debug
• minSDK30Release
• minSDK21Debug
• minSDK21Release

gradlew

Gradle wrapper which is an executable file that contains tasks, this means that you can use that file to run tasks that you use on your IDE i.e:

./gradlew build
./gradlew tasks

Variables

Dependency management

Relates to

References