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Mastering Gradle

Mastering Gradle

By : Mitra
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Mastering Gradle

Mastering Gradle

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By: Mitra

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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Task configuration

We discussed in first chapter that a build file consists of three phases: initialization, configuration, and execution, which are explained briefly as follows:

  • Initialization creates the project object.
  • The configuration phase configures the project object, creates DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) based on task dependencies. It also executes the project and the task configuration statements.
  • The execution phase finally executes the actions mentioned in the task body.

The task API mainly defines two types of closures: doFirst(Closure closure) and doLast(Closure closure), which internally calls doFirst(Action action) and doLast(Action action). You can mention either one or both of them.

Tip

Statements mentioned outside of these actions are part of your configuration, which are executed during the configuration phase.

To verify the configuration phase of a task, you can execute the build script using the --dry-run or –m option. The --dry-run ( or –m) option only goes...

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