Now that you know how Gradle works, how to create your own tasks and plugins, how to run tests, and how to set up continuous integration, you can almost call yourself a Gradle expert. This chapter contains a few tips and tricks that we have not mentioned in the previous chapters that make it easier to build, develop, and deploy Android projects using Gradle.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

We will start out by looking at how we can reduce the size of the build output and why that is useful.