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Mastering Gradle

Mastering Gradle

By : Mitra
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Mastering Gradle

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Overview of this book

If you are a developer with some experience in build tool and want to become an expert in build tool, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Gradle or any other build tool is essential.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Getting Started with Gradle
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1. Getting Started with Gradle
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Understanding Build Automation System
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Gradle overview
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Installation and quick start
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Our first script
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Gradle command Line arguments
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The Gradle GUI
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Start up script
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Build life cycle
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Cache management
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Gradle with IDE
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Summary
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2. Groovy Essentials for Gradle
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2. Groovy Essentials for Gradle
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Overview
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Groovy script for Hello World
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Data types
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Classes, beans, and methods
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Control structures
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Collections
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Closure
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Builder
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3. Managing Task
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3. Managing Task
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Build script basics
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Task configuration
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Task execution
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Task dependency
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Task ordering
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Task operations
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Gradle's in-built tasks
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Custom tasks
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4. Plugin Management
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4. Plugin Management
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The script plugin
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The binary plugin
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Gradle's in-built plugins
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The Java plugin
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The custom plugin
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5. Dependency Management
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5. Dependency Management
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Overview
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Dependency configurations
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Dependency resolution
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Customizing the dependency
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Publishing artifacts
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Summary
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6. Working with Gradle
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6. Working with Gradle
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The War plugin
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The Scala plugin
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Logging
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File management
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Property management
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Multi-project build
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Testing with Gradle
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Summary
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7. Continuous Integration
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7. Continuous Integration
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Jenkins walk-through
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Checkstyle and PMD plugins
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The Sonar Runner plugin
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TeamCity walk-through
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8. Migration
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8. Migration
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Migration from Ant
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Migration from Maven
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9. Deployment
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9. Deployment
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Role of Gradle in deployment
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Docker overview
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Installing Docker
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Docker commands
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Running an application in Docker
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Build, Deployment, and Test pipeline
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10. Building Android Applications with Gradle
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10. Building Android Applications with Gradle
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Creating Android project using Android Studio
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Building the Android project with Gradle
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Index
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Index

Migration from Ant

Ant is one of the initial build tools that became very popular among developers because they can control each and every step of the build process. But writing each and every step means a lot of boilerplate code in the build file. Another feature which was lacking in the initial Ant releases was complexity in dependency management, which was later simplified by introducing an Ivy dependency manager. For Ant users, it is very simple and easy to switch to using Gradle as their build tool. Gradle provides direct integration with Ant using Groovy's AntBuilder. Ant tasks are treated as first class citizens in the Gradle world. In the next sections, we will discuss three different strategies: importing Ant file into Gradle, script use of AntBuilder class and rewriting to Gradle. These strategies can be followed to migrate from Ant to Gradle.

Importing Ant file

This is one of the simplest ways of integrating the Ant script with Gradle script. It is very useful as the first step...

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