An introduction to core concepts in Gradle by writing a small Java project. Repo: https://github.com/eriwen/dcc-2016

1. Gradle by example
Desert Code Camp 2016.1
Eric Wendelin

2. Eric Wendelin
@eriwen

3. About Gradle
Live Coding
Next Steps
Q & A
Agenda

4. About Gradle

5. Build Automation Tool

6. Build Automation Tool
Compiles code
Runs tests
Assembles docs
Packages and runs applications
Performs Deployments
... among other things

8. Fast, flexible build automation tool
Build scripts are code
Convention-based Projects and Tasks
Gradle In Brief

9. How Gradle is familiar

10. How Gradle is familiar
Build Scripts are code
Task based
Project based
Convention over configuration
Plugins

11. How Gradle is unique

12. How Gradle is unique
Flexible conventions
Gradle Daemon
Gradle Wrapper
Composite Builds
Build Scans

13. Gradle Daemon

14. Live Coding
https://github.com/eriwen/dcc-2016

15. But wait! There's more!

16. Bundled Plugins
Platforms
Java, Groovy, Scala, Play!, Native
Analysis
Checkstyle, JaCoCo, PMD, FindBugs
and more...

17. Community Plugins
Languages
Python, JS, Go, Clojure, ...
Tools
Bintray, Docker, Git, ...
and more...

18. Next Steps

19. Next Steps
docs.gradle.org
blog.gradle.org
discuss.gradle.org
scans.gradle.com
twitter.com/gradle

20. Q & A

21. @eriwen
Thank You
Eric Wendelin