Gradle Dependency Management

Declaring dependencies

We defined configurations or applied a plugin that added new configurations to our project. However, a configuration is empty unless we add dependencies to the configuration. To declare dependencies in our Gradle build file, we must add the dependencies configuration block. The configuration block will contain the definition of our dependencies. In the following example Gradle build file, we define the dependencies block:

// Dependencies configuration block.
dependencies {
    // Here we define our dependencies.
}

Inside the configuration block, we use the name of a dependency configuration followed by the description of our dependencies. The name of the dependency configuration can be defined explicitly in the build file or can ...