To appreciate the benefits of Gradle, it helps to understand where it came from. When Gradle was first released in 2007, the Java ecosystem had already established several viable tools. Ant emerged in ...

Does it feel like Android Studio packages and builds your apps, with very little input from you? Behind the scenes, Android Studio uses the Gradle automated build toolkit, and although it’s possible ...

As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

I left JavaOne 2011 with several take-aways. One of the most significant was a renewed interest in learning more about Gradle. In this post, I look at using Gradle and at migrating a simple Ant build ...

Gradle and Maven are two of the top build automation tools available for developers. Learn how these tools differ to find the right DevOps tool for your projects. Two of the most popular DevOps tools ...

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