Getting Started with Gradle

What does gradle do?

• Build deploument artifacts
• Manage dependecies.

Gradle parses the gradle.build file.

How to add Gradle to a simple java project?

• Create build.gradle file
• Add source code declaration to build.gradle file.
• Add external library dependecies.
• Add repository declaration.

What is Gradle wrapper?

• It is a thin layer around grable 
• Checks to see that the requested version of gradle is installed.
• Passes the commands onto the real gradle.

Command : ./gradlew build