Chapter 3. Working with Gradle Build Scripts

A Gradle script is a program. We use a Groovy DSL to express our build logic. Gradle has several useful built-in methods for handling files and directories, because we often deal with files and directories in our build logic.

In this chapter we will learn how we can use Gradle's features to work with files and directories. Also, we will take a look at how we can set properties in a Gradle build and use Gradle's logging framework. Finally, we see will how we can use the Gradle wrapper task to distribute a configurable Gradle with our build scripts.