What is Gradle

The work that Gradle can do on a project is defined by one or more tasks. A task represents some atomic piece of work which a build performs. This might be compiling some classes, creating a JAR, generating Javadoc, or publishing some archives to a repository .

You can execute multiple tasks from a single build file. Gradle can handle the build file using gradle command. This command will compile each task in such an order that they are listed and execute each task along with the dependencies using different options .

Gradle Builds and Android Studio Android Studio supports Gradle as its build automation system out of the box. The Android build system compiles app resources and source code and packages them into APKs that you can test, deploy, sign, and distribute .

Gradle is one type of build tool that builds the source code of the program. So it’s an important part of Android Studio, and needs to be installed before starting developing your application . We do not have to install it separately, because the Android Studio does it for us, when we make our first project.