Introduction to Gradle

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Want a type of construction tool which can develop any software? Gradle is the one to go. Gradle is an open-source tool capable of developing the desired software.

Developed by Hans Dockter, Szczepan Faber Adam Murdoch, Luke Daley, Peter Niederwieser, Daz DeBoer, and Rene Gröschkebefore 13 years before. Gradle used apache ant and apache maven; it is a tool capable of developing applications with industry standards. Also, this supports a variety of programming languages such as groovy, c++, java, scala, and c.

Why Gradle?

  1. Integrated Development Environment (IDE): Gradle supports varieties of IDEs and can say that it is a built tool that helps multiple development environments.
  2. Java And Gradle: Gradle needs a java environment JVM to run, and some of the features of Gradle are also similar to java. Gradle supports APIs supported by the same java, and it is one of the best things ever to happen
  3. Task And Repository: Gradle supports Ant and Maven build tools and allows Ant projects to get imported into the Gradle environment. Maven repository is also a green light in terms of support in Gradle.
  4. Build: Gradle provides a build for specific tasks only if the previous build is compiled.
  5. Open Source: Gradle is open source and user friendly and is licensed under ASL (Apache License)
  6. Multiple Design Support For Build: Gradle tools support multiple builds support as while designing root projects, it may have several sub projects, and all these sub projects have many more projects inside it.
  7. Scalability: Applications developed with Gradle are highly scalable, and it increases productivity.
  8. Declarative Builds: Groovy language of Gradle provides declarative language elements and checks for previous source code for the changes and then compiles.
  9. Deep API: With Deep API, developers can easily customize the configurations and monitor execution behavior.
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