Learning a build automation system or at least understanding the concept behind them is a mandatory skill set for any software engineering.
Similar to Apache Ant and Apache Maven, Gradle is an open source build automation system that comes as an improvement of established concepts.
It can handle large multi-project software systems, it is designed to be IDE agnostic and it can also be used by continues integration tools such as Jenkins.
Gradle Commands
Test the Gradle installation:
$ gradle
To see a list of available tasks:
$ gradle tasks
List of available tasks and their dependencies
$ gradle tasks --all
To run a task:
$ gradle name_of_task
To install in local Maven repository (prerequisite: apply plugin: ‘maven’)
$ gradle install
Enabling the Gradle Daemon (a long-lived background process that executes your builds much more quickly)
$ gradle --daemon
or
touch ~/.gradle/gradle.properties && echo "org.gradle.daemon=true" >> ~/.gradle/gradle.properties
Disabling the Gradle Daemon
$ gradle --stop
To be continued…