Maintaining two separate build systems (Ant and Eclipse’s native approach) was becoming time-consuming, and would become worse with the advent of Android Studio and yet another build system.
This way, we had two approaches to building Android projects and each is independent of other. Eclipse does not use Ant for building Android projects, but rather has its own build system. Eclipse was the IDE, while Ant was the command-line tool. Originally, when we would build an app, those builds were done using Eclipse and Ant. Google is also using Gradle and Gradle for Android as the build system behind Android Studio. Google has published the Android Plugin for Gradle, which gives Gradle the ability to build Android projects. What Does Android Have To Do with Gradle? Gradle, for example, is a Groovy DSL for doing software builds. One of Groovy’s strengths is in creating a domain-specific language (or DSL). The Groovy run- time is a Java JAR and requires a JVM in order to operate. Groovy scripts are run by executing a groovy command, passing it the script to run. Groovy scripts look a bit like a mashup of Java and Ruby. Groovy is one of many programming languages that are designed to run on top of the Java VM. Gradle uses a domain-specific language (DSL) built on top of Groovy to accomplish these tasks. applications directly, but instead directs separate compilers, linkers, and packagers to do that work. These tools know - via intrinsic capabilities and rules that you teach them - how to determine what needs to be created (e.g., based on file changes) and how to create them.Ī build system does not compile, link, package, etc. You may have used other build tools in other environments, such as make (C/C++), rake (Ruby), Ant (Java), Maven (Java), etc. Gradle is for building software, otherwise known as “build automation software” or “build systems”. On the other hand, some (but far from all) of the things that we can set up in the manifest can be overridden in Gradle, for Android Studio users.
Gradle and the manifest are not strictly related. In this blog, the mysteries of Gradle will be revealed to you.
0 kommentar(er)
