Understanding Gradle #01 – The Settings File

In this first instalment of my Understanding Gradle series I talk about the entry point of every Gradle project - the Settings File.

▶️ 0:00 The Settings File
▶️ 0:10 Start a Gradle project from scratch
▶️ 0:21 Name your Gradle build
▶️ 0:27 Repositories and locations of other builds for libraries
▶️ 0:54 Repositories and locations of other builds for Gradle plugins
▶️ 1:13 Structure of the build - subprojects
▶️ 1:46 Using settings plugins
▶️ 2:00 Script code in the settings file
▶️ 2:25 Summary

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[sumanb]

Thanks! The information here is advanced and technically deep, when compared to the other courses in paid learning platforms which are outdated on gradle 4 or so. Demoing with a powerful typed language like Kotlin is a definite plus. Use this channel and refer to the gradle docs to gain mastery over gradle build tool. Watched 10 videos back to back 😀

[shaiquekhan]

The last tip to iterate over the list of directories was 🤯

[thiamath]

Succint and right to the point. Thats how I love informative videos. Great job!
And thank you!

[sonicCat]

Thanks, that's a really great video series as for me it's tough to understand gradle from reading long and detailed documentations where one page discloses everything about one particular topic. I prefer to understand every part of the system step by step, like with studying English :). Hope you will keep posting new videos and tell us more about gradle and recently added features.

[OmprakashYadavIIT]

awesome, u make things so simple and clean

[abdulelahaljeffery]

hands down one of the very best introductions to Gradle on youtube!
Thank you Jendrik for this great work <3

would be great to have the groovy version of these files as well since it's still the default as of now.
as a beginner, I had trouble writing ( rootDirs.listFiles.... ) in my settings.gradle

[dleonardo]

Would you migrate from grrovy to Kotlin?

[fredeisele]

Would you recommend structuring a set of projects into a single repository as demonstrated in this tutorial? Or, is that just done to illustrate the 'includeBuild'?

[Phlegethon]

Thank you again for this playlist!
Can I nest builds? Do I need to include only the top composite build? Do the nested builds keep structure (in gradle, so that I can call "gradle or are they flattened? I think the latter (by calling "gradle projects" in the root directory of the overall project)...

[ZaineAmanda]

It would be great if you put subtitles on these videos about Gradle