Chapter 7. Creating Tasks and Plugins

So far, we have been manipulating properties for our Gradle builds and learning how to run tasks. In this chapter, we will get a deeper understanding of those properties, and start creating our own tasks. Once we know how to write our own tasks, we can go even further, and look at how to make our own plugins that can be reused in several projects.

Before we look at how to create custom tasks, we need to learn a few important Groovy concepts. This is because having a basic understanding of how Groovy works makes it a lot easier to get started with custom tasks and plugins. Knowing Groovy also helps to understand how Gradle works, and why the build configuration files look the way they do.

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

Understanding Groovy
Getting started with tasks
Hooking into the Android plugin
Creating your own plugins

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Gradle for Android

By : Pelgrims

Gradle for Android

By: Pelgrims

Overview of this book

Chapter 7. Creating Tasks and Plugins

Gradle for Android

By : Pelgrims

Gradle for Android

By: Pelgrims

Overview of this book

Chapter 7. Creating Tasks and Plugins

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