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Mastering Gradle
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Mastering Gradle

by Mainak Mitra
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
284 pages
5h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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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 ...

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