Project properties

In a Gradle build file we can access several properties that are defined by Gradle, but we can also create our own properties. We can set the value of our custom properties directly in the build script and also by passing values via the command line.

The default properties we can access in a Gradle build are displayed in the following table:

Name	Type	Default value
project	Project	The project instance.
name	String	The name of the project directory. The name is read-only.
path	String	The absolute path of the project.
description	String	Description of the project.
projectDir	File	The directory containing the build script. The value is read-only.
buildDir	File	Directory with the name build in the directory containing the build script.
group	Object	Not specified.
version	Object	Not specified.
ant	AntBuilder	An AntBuilder instance.

The following build file has a task to show the value of the properties:

version...