Summary

We started the chapter by looking at the advantages of Gradle and why it is more useful than other build systems currently in use. We briefly looked at Android Studio and how it can help us by generating build files.

After the introduction, we took a look at the Gradle Wrapper, which makes maintenance and sharing projects a lot easier. We created a new project in Android Studio, and you now know how to migrate an Eclipse project to Android Studio and Gradle, both automatically and manually. You are also capable of building projects with Gradle in Android Studio, or straight from the command-line interface.

In the next few chapters, we will look at ways to customize the build, so you can further automate the build process and make maintenance even easier. We will start by examining all the standard Gradle files, exploring basic build tasks, and customizing parts of the build in the next chapter.