Gradle is an open source build system. Gradle boasts a rich API and mature ecosystem of plugins and integrations to support automation. Users can model, integrate and systematize the delivery of software from end to end.
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Chose Gradle Build Tool (Open Source)
[Gradle is] a more modern version of open source build tools like Ant and Maven.
Whereas the build config was XML files which were tedious and error
prone, the modern DSL usage of Groovy to write these build files is a
Gradle is good and matches well against market leader Maven with its ease of use, ease of migration from Maven to Gradle and also coding like configuration unlike the XML configuration of Maven
Without the use of Gradle, we have done direct integration with the APIs. This has not worked very well in the case of Android as there are a lot of packaging related actions that Gradle directly takes as part of the plugin. This decision to use Gradle was an easy one.
Maven is a much more mature build tool. The community behind maven plugins has continued to grow over time, and there are several mature products that continue to receive support. Gradle can use some of these features, but appears to be losing steam over time. The effort to …
SBT works fine for Scala but when I tried to use it with Java it was hard to configure and I gave up. Maven is awesome but the pom.xml file tends to be really big which makes it hard to read. Grunt is suitable only for js projects.
I have participated in a variety of build environments, from basic shell scripts, to ant, and to maven. All of these tools have a place, sometimes perhaps in legacy code. But moving forward, I would never go back to other more primitive tools (never say never...). The more I …
Maven is the most popular alternative to Gradle, in my opinion. I think that both have their advantages and disavantages so I would advise people to scan through the documentation and example applications of both tools and choose according to their needs and limitations.