Gradle Was Hard Until I Learnt This INSANE Secret

[@TomGregoryTech]

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[@Veetrill_UKR]

Not gonna lie, what I first thought would be a clickbait video, actually turned out to be a crucial piece of wisdom I lacked. Thank you so much!

[@programmingpython584]

"gradle build scripts are just code, and you know code", this is the best thing to hear

[@phoenixshell3772]

I had the same realisation after being android developer for 2 years, not really understanding gradle, life changing. It made me actually realise that all new tech frameworks at the end of the day boil down to "programs" and "code" just different way of implementing it

[@arziofox]

Great video. I will be recommending it whenever someone have issues understanding the groovy syntax in a Gradle project

[@ahadgulafridi01]

being a perfectionist i was not really satisfied by copy and pasting the different lines in build script. i just used to be so confused. you made life easy thank you!

[@KevinSheppard]

I'm a pretty proficient Groovy developer, but what helped me a lot was actually browsing the API doc starting with the Project object. After that it was magic ✨

[@masterflitzer]

kotlin dsl is superior

[@gerdsfargen6687]

​@@masterflitzerit's lazier that's about all.

[@vvanchesa]

As someone (relative) new to java and I just saw a bunch of gradle-scripts I never created one by my own. Seeing a gradle-script as code and not as a config file, was the missing link for me. Until today I always tried to see the syntax like a kind of YML file. Thanks for making this short video.

[@latedriver9019]

Man, I needed this. Thank you.

[@LeoFuso]

God tier video. I'm quite used to Gradle at this point, but I only actually understood what I was doing after trying to build a Plug-in. I encourage you all to try, it's pretty fun and you end up knowing a lot about Gradle in general. Including the Project object.

[@HellCatLeMaudit]

I had so much difficulty with gradle's inflexibility that I went back to using "make". I use "make" for my C++ projects anyway so it was a no-brainer.

[@anonymousgamer2839]

even makefile may be easier for me, or even the notoriously difficult assembly I can understand. But not the horrible way of building an apk form gradle and I was searching it from past 2 years. There is no support added for android apk (it says applicaton and never output to apk) while doing gradle init There is no easy way to add a damn function in build.gradle file or I don't know how to add new task that builds an apk or it just impossible to build apk using gradle or some crappy tools like android studio must be used that is just a big bloat for me

[@_rtdp_]

Use CMake

[@Akz77977]

i just discovered a gem on youtube.. thanks tom for such insightful video on gradle

[@jdsaravaiya6468]

Video starts at 01:48

[@ddavity]

Simple, concise and well explained. You definitely changed my view on Gradle, thank you!

[@l_a_h797]

Thank you ... this hit some nails on the head for me!

[@michaelperkins1119]

Wow, considering it as code indeed changes a lot. Thank you!

[@LifeLessonsLearned8587]

Finally, I can say I know how to write build gradle

[@mattchew2203]

Great content, you describe things in such a concise and understandable way. Appreciate you.

[@SirusStarTV]

Some tools at first provide config files in a static json format and when they evolve, they find that they need something dynamic, so they start using scripting language as a configurator.

[@gnshjgm1989]

Great content hope you continue to help gradle learning from developer perspective

[@alanwakeup3344]

Coming from .NET, Gradle was pretty intimidating, but this video greatly diminished that. Thank you!

[@systematicpsychologic7321]

Solid framing, thank you.

[@damercy]

I'm 1 min into the video and the moment you mention that gradle build script is just code is the insight, it also made me feel confident. For some reason it doesn't feel like so at first sight but you're right. Thank you Tom for helping out this newbie. Subscribed! ❤

[@ehippo1]

This video is from developer for developers. Love it !

[@kitersrefuge7353]

Thanks Tom. Very nicely done. I am old enough to remember the first version of Gradle. At the time, with Maven (and Ant before that) it generated a lot of hope and promise as a replacement to the latter. Unfortunately, that promise never got realized...as the authors mindest imo was/is? convoluted...imagine our disappointment in _actually wishing for Maven back! However, never say never, and your video is a stepping stone to proving myself as being an old fuddy duddy ;=)

[@brucecichowlas4156]

That IS insightful! Thanks!

[@driden1987]

This video is great! Would've loved this 2 years ago when I dived head first into java at work and had to deal with gradle all the time. Eventually, I found my way around this, not without having to read a bit of gradle code.

[@sachinwalunjakar8854]

Thank you for making this video.

[@aparfeno]

Awesome video! Another reason why gradle is so hard is gradle's documentation. It is AWFUL. It is both prolific and completely useless, only serving to make the reader feel confused and stupid. Your 5 min video is all a gradle newbie needs because, as you point out, we ARE developers. Thank you again!

[@cristobalcanas5189]

Excelent. Thanks for this video

[@MrJoker-ze6bb]

please make video on Android Gradle

[@thiagoalexandremartinsmont4115]

Great content! Congratulations!

[@ShaheenGhiassy]

You have to wonder at the benefit of Gradle using hipster syntax. Yes, in Groovy you can pass function parameters without parentheses. But how many more devs are confused rather than helped by that syntax?

[@jonathankee9322]

3:48 was my same reaction looking at {} syntax for Groovy or Kotlin for the first time hahaha, it's was weird because I only know Java

[@PigDogBay]

Very useful video, thanks!

[@MechWhisper]

Thanks for the insight! It opens up my eyes!

[@mahoneg]

Thanks great place to start!

[@jroseme]

Pong animation was fire 🔥

[@MikeVerba]

At last!! Great explanation - I know code, I can handle Gradle. As simple as that!

[@go_better]

Thanks! That actually makes a lot of sense...

[@karthikeyanm9922]

Deserves more likes and views !

[@st-tube]

Very well done!

[@SuryakiranAllu]

simply a must watch gradle tutorial video

[@salmaK20012]

You're a life saver!

[@mikefischbein3230]

That was great. Thanks.

[@it-series-music]

Amazing video🔥🔥🔥

[@dsinghr]

Picking up a Gradle upgrade ticket gives me jitters

[@ChrisAthanas]

Super helpful Why is this not told Day one? Android has an immense learning curve

[@priyatanudey6104]

The heart beat moment is like deja vu

[@HungNguyen-le8pg]

gradle build scripts are just code. And I know code! Build script use Groovy DSL or Kotlin DSL. Because DSL is domain specific language, so they don't look like code, but they are!

[@rebok232]

I was using intelj templates, until i wanted to have an gradle task to show me updates, that's how i started learning gradle, as an kotlin user, it was kinda easy to learn gradle, cause i'm using gradle kotlin dsl

[@mhdunknown]

Yeah thinking about in a "it's just code written declaratively with a bunch of callbacks" does open my "third eye" kinda lol. Btw, anyone else on Android Studio notice that Groovy DSL gradle doesn't actually show any documentation when you hover over its method? My jaw dropped when I saw the docs in the youtube video, that never appeared to me, not sure if it's an Android Studio bug or maybe I misconfigured the IDE somehow.

[@flyinghorse2739]

Can I place my .java file within /src/main/java

[@Emerald214]

I searched "Gradle sucks" and the result showed your video.

[@leoamato6113]

thank you

[@halotroop2288]

If only the IDE integration actually worked most of the time... In reality you usually get countless warnings that can't be solved and method references that can't be CTRL+Clicked, because they come from a plugin, and the plugin often isn't on the recognized classpath.

[@halotroop2288]

I like this video. I hope you have more videos about Gradle because I really need to learn more for my power-user development antics.

[@shriduttkothari]

Thanks bhai 😊

[@sohpol]

I don't know about you, but even if I didn't know that simple secret, I'd still love Gradle.... BECAUSE IT'S NOT XML! ;)

[@aliceb.8615]

Such wonderful acting 😄 But seriously, great job editing and making an easy-to-understand video! Title's super click-batey, but I guess if it works why not use it :shrug:

[@davidtico1613]

Perdona, pero no me entero de nada, flatDir no me funciona y tampoco tu explicación, gracias

[@rajushingadiya2860]

thanks sir

[@TomGregoryTech]

You're very welcome!

[@build-things]

Insightful video. I still think gradle has possibly the worst documentation iv ever tried to read though

[@NexusBaum]

Well Maven is even worse in my opinion

[@jethroaxel2305]

"Notorious hard build tool..." You misspelled maven lol

[@mohamedyoussef8835]

Awesome video +++++++++++++++++ 😀

[@adolf7744]

Oh yes! Code is made out of code!

[@masterflitzer]

kotlin dsl is the way

[@Chris-wf9mg]

Groovy gradle? Huh.

[@alphabee8171]

i know code.

[@lasindunuwanga5292]

damn it is a language... a very wierd one.. I never ever thought thought implementation, id and etc are function calls... 😂😂😂😂

[@craigstadlock]

TL;DR.. Gradle is code (duh) and read the Gradle docs. How about mabybe explaning why this might be useful, like making reusable helper functions in your script.

[@mahee96]

it obviously is DSL (Domain specific lanfuage) and the language must be a turing complete one

[@jopadjr]

571st...Thanks Tom

[@manee427]

Build tools and package managers in Java is Horrible compare with other languages

[@donwald3436]

lol if you think gradle is hard, have a look at sbt.

[@glowiboi]

i dont know code, gradle is garbage

[@dustmarcus]

Great. You could also explain the "configuration { myNewConfig }" magic. (NamedDomain..., create, getAt, getByName)

[@sciab3674]

nice one thanks

[@rajushingadiya2860]

thanks sir