With the Gradle copy task we can define renaming rules for the files that are copied. We use the rename() method of the copy task to define the naming rules. We can use a closure where the filename is the argument of the closure. The name we return f…

Gradle Goodness: Copy Files with Filtering Gradle's copy task is very powerful and includes filtering capabilities. This means we can change the contents of the files that are copied before they reach their new destination. We use the filter() method…

With the copy task of Gradle we can copy files that are parsed by Groovy's SimpleTemplateEngine. This means we can expand properties in the source file and add Groovy code that is going to be executed. We must use the expand() method in the copy task…

Gradle Goodness: Task Output Annotations Create Directory Automatically One of the great features of Gradle is incremental build support. With incremental build support a task is only executed if it is really necessary. For example if a task generate…

Gradle Goodness: Init Script for Adding Extra Plugins to Existing Projects Gradle is very flexible. One of the ways to alter the build configuration is with initialization or init scripts. These are like other Gradle scripts but are executed before t…

在build.gradle中添加个 compile files('libs/alipaySdk-20170922.jar') 就一直报这个错误 Error:Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugAndroidTestRuntimeClasspath'. > Failed to transform file 'alipaySdk-20170932.jar' to match attributes {artifactType…

Gradle has a very powerful incremental build feature. This means Gradle will not execute a task unless it is necessary. We can help Gradle and configure our task so it is ready for an incremental build. Suppose we have a task that generates a file. T…

In a previous post we learned how we can use the inputs and outputs properties to set properties or files that need to be checked to see if a task is up to date. In this post we learn how a custom task class can use annotations to set input propertie…

Gradle adds the task rule clean<Taskname> to our projects when we apply the base plugin. This task is able to remove any output files or directories we have defined for our task. For example we can assign an output file or directory to our task with…

In Gradle we can group related tasks using the group property of a task. We provide the name of our group and if we look at the output of the tasks task we can see our tasks grouped in section with the given name. In the next sample we create a new t…