What is Gradle for Android?

Android Studio uses Gradle, an advanced build toolkit , to automate and manage the build process, while allowing you to define flexible custom build configurations. Each build configuration can define its own set of code and resources, while reusing the parts common to all versions of your app.

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What is Gradle plugin?

A plugin is simply any class that implements the Plugin interface . Gradle provides the core plugins (e.g. JavaPlugin ) as part of its distribution which means they are automatically resolved. However, non-core binary plugins need to be resolved before they can be applied.

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What is Java Gradle plugin?

The Java Gradle Plugin development plugin can be used to assist in the development of Gradle plugins . It automatically applies the Java Library plugin, adds the gradleApi() dependency to the api configuration and performs validation of plugin metadata during jar task execution.

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