Mastering Gradle

Gradle overview

Before getting into the details of Gradle, we need to understand some of the terminologies related to the build system.

There are two types of build tools, namely imperative build tools and declarative build tools. An imperative build tool tells the system what to do and how to do it. In other words, it provides a set of action statements or commands, which the system executes in the same order and performs those actions. You can take Ant as an example of the imperative build system.

Whereas, a declarative build tool instructs the system, telling it what you would like to achieve, and system will figure out how to interpret it. With a declarative approach, the user only needs to determine the what, not the how. This is one of the ...