gradle Initializing Gradle
Remarks
Terminology
- Task - an atomic piece of work which a build performs. Tasks have
inputs,outputsand task dependencies. dependencies {}- DeclaresFileor binary dependencies necessary to execute tasks. For example,org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.21is shorthand coordinates to a Maven dependency.repositories {}- How Gradle finds files for external dependencies. Really, just a collection of files organized by group, name, and version. For example:jcenter()is a convenience method formaven { url 'http://jcenter.bintray.com/' } }, a Bintray Maven repository.
