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Gradle for Android

By : Pelgrims

5 (3)

Gradle for Android

5 (3)

By: Pelgrims

Overview of this book

If you are an experienced Android developer wanting to enhance your skills with the Gradle Android build system, then this book is for you. As a prerequisite, you will need some knowledge of the concepts of Android application development.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Getting Started with Gradle and Android Studio

1. Getting Started with Gradle and Android Studio

Android Studio

Understanding Gradle basics

Creating a new project

Getting started with the Gradle Wrapper

Migrating from Eclipse

Summary

2. Basic Build Customization

2. Basic Build Customization

Understanding the Gradle files

Getting started with tasks

Customizing the build

Summary

3. Managing Dependencies

3. Managing Dependencies

Repositories

Local dependencies

Dependency concepts

Inside Android Studio

Summary

4. Creating Build Variants

4. Creating Build Variants

Build types

Product flavors

Build variants

Signing configurations

Summary

5. Managing Multimodule Builds

5. Managing Multimodule Builds

The anatomy of a multimodule build

Adding modules to a project

Tips and best practices

Summary

6. Running Tests

6. Running Tests

Unit tests

Functional tests

Test coverage

Summary

7. Creating Tasks and Plugins

7. Creating Tasks and Plugins

Understanding Groovy

Getting started with tasks

Hooking into the Android plugin

Creating your own plugins

Summary

8. Setting Up Continuous Integration

8. Setting Up Continuous Integration

Jenkins

TeamCity

Travis CI

Further automation

Summary

9. Advanced Build Customization

9. Advanced Build Customization

Reducing the APK file size

Speeding up builds

Ignoring Lint

Using Ant from Gradle

Advanced app deployment

Summary

Index

Index

Chapter 2. Basic Build Customization

We started out by looking at the uses of Gradle, and creating and converting Android projects. Now it is time to get a better understanding of the build files, to look at some useful tasks, and to explore the possibilities of both Gradle and the Android plugin.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

Understanding the Gradle files
Getting started with build tasks
Customizing the build

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