Mastering Gradle

Multi-project build

We have explored many features of Gradle such as tasks, plugins, and dependency management. We have seen many examples of the build script involving in-built tasks, custom tasks, and dependencies between the tasks. Yet, we have not covered one of the main features of Gradle, which is Multi-Project Build. Until now we have seen build files for a single project. A single project build file represents only one project or one module. It is a very common scenario in any software world that it starts with a single module initially and as the software matures and grows over time, it turns into a big project. Then we need to divide it again into different submodules, but overall, we build the project using one file only. Gradle provides ...