gradle : Building Android Apps Mobel Meetup 2013-10-15 @alexvb http://alex.vanboxel.be/ Biography A Software Architect - Mobile l e @ Vente-Exclusive.com x V a Working with Java since the dark ages… at n Progress Software, Alcatel-Lucent, … B o x Interested in science and technology e l Build History a brief history of java build systems In the beginning there was nothing B o t t l e d 2 0 i 0 n 0 … created Ant and he saw it as messy Ant example <project> <target name="clean"> <delete dir="build"/> </target> <target name="compile"> <mkdir dir="build/classes"/> <javac srcdir="src" destdir="build/classes"/> </target> <target name="jar"> <mkdir dir="build/jar"/> <jar destfile="build/jar/HelloWorld.jar" basedir="build/classes"> <manifest> <attribute name="Main-Class" value="io.mobel.HelloWorld"/> </manifest> </jar> </target> <target name="run"> <java jar="build/jar/HelloWorld.jar" fork="true"/> </target> </project> B o t t l e 2 d 0 i 0 n 1 + … created Maven and he saw it was better, but... Maven example <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId> <artifactId>my-app</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>jar</packaging> <name>Maven Quick Start Archetype</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>4.8.2</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </project> Maven’s build by convention my-app |-- pom.xml `-- src |-- main | `-- java | `-- com | `-- mycompany | `-- app | `-- App.java `-- test `-- java `-- com `-- mycompany `-- app `-- AppTest.java B o t t l e 2 d 0 i 1 n 1 + … created Gradle build files in XML is so 80’s