Chapter 5. Dependency Management

When we develop our code, we usually use third-party or open source libraries. These libraries need to be available in the classpath of the compiler, otherwise we will get errors and our build will fail. Gradle provides support for dependency management, so we can define our dependencies in our build file. Gradle will then take care of the necessary configuration for our various tasks.

In this chapter, we will learn how we can use dependency management in our builds. We will see how to organize dependencies with configurations. We will also learn about repositories that host dependency artifacts, their dependencies, and how we can handle different repository layouts.

Then we will define dependencies using Gradle syntax, for modules with version information.