Gradle definition

Wikipedia definition

See also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradle

Gradle is an open-source build automation system that builds upon the concepts of Apache Ant and Apache Maven and introduces a Groovy-based domain-specific language (DSL) instead of the XML form used by Apache Maven for declaring the project configuration.

Gradle uses a directed acyclic graph (“DAG”) to determine the order in which tasks can be run.

Gradle was designed for multi-project builds, which can grow to be quite large.

It supports incremental builds by intelligently determining which parts of the build tree are up to date; any task dependent only on those parts does not need to be re-executed.