Mastering Gradle

Our first script

In the last section, we learned how to install Gradle. Now it's time create our very first Gradle script. This script will print Hello Gradle- This is your first script on the console. Just open a text editor, type in the following three lines, and save the file as build.gradle.

task helloGradle << {
      println 'Hello Gradle- This is your first script'
}

Then execute the gradle helloGradle command as follows:

$ gradle helloGradle
:helloGradle
Hello Gradle- This is your first script
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 4.808 secs

So, what have we done here?

• We have a created a Gradle build script file called build.gradle. This is the default name given to a build file. You can give any name to the build file. However, to execute the script, ...