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 ...

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, the build system of choice for Android mobile development, has been upgraded with better support for building Java applications. Gradle 3.4 offers fast incremental results and “the end of ...