In Chapter 1, Defining Dependencies, you learned how to add dependencies to your projects. We have seen different ways of specifying dependencies, such as module or project dependencies. In the previous chapter, we explored how to define the repositories that host our dependencies. Gradle will use this information to do the actual dependency resolution. In this chapter, we will see how Gradle resolves dependencies.

Gradle has a different way of resolving version conflicts than other build tools, so we will take a good look at what happens when a dependency is resolved. We will see how we can customize the resolution process in Gradle so that we can have the exact dependencies we want and have reliable and repeatable builds.