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Gradle Vs Maven

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Why Gradle Is Preferred Over Maven or Ant?

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There isn't a great support for multi-project builds in Ant and Maven. Developers
end up
doing a lot of coding to support multi-project builds.
Also having some build-by-convention is nice and makes build scripts more concise.
With
Maven, it takes build by convention too far, and customizing your build process
becomes a
hack.
Maven also promotes every project publishing an artifact. Maven does not support
subprojects to be built and versioned together.
But with Gradle developers can have the flexibility of Ant and build by convention
of
Maven.
Groovy is easier and clean to code than XML. In Gradle, developers can define
dependencies between projects on the local file system without the need to publish
artifacts to repository.
Question: Gradle Vs Maven
The following is a summary of the major differences between Gradle and Apache
Maven:
Flexibility: Google chose Gradle as the official build tool for Android; not
because build
scripts are code, but because Gradle is modeled in a way that is extensible in the
most
fundamental ways.
Both Gradle and Maven provide convention over configuration. However, Maven
provides a
very rigid model that makes customization tedious and sometimes impossible.
While this can make it easier to understand any given Maven build, it also makes it
unsuitable for many automation problems. Gradle, on the other hand, is built with
an
empowered and responsible user in mind.
Performance
Both Gradle and Maven employ some form of parallel project building and parallel
dependency resolution. The biggest differences are Gradle's mechanisms for work
avoidance and incrementally. Following features make Gradle much faster than Maven:
Incrementally:Gradle avoids work by tracking input and output of tasks and only
running what is necessary.
Build Cache:Reuses the build outputs of any other Gradle build with the same
inputs.
Gradle Daemon:A long-lived process that keeps build information "hot" in memory.
User Experience
Maven's has a very good support for various IDE's. Gradle's IDE support continues
to
improve quickly but is not great as of Maven.
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Although IDEs are important, a large number of users prefer to execute build
operations
through a command-line interface. Gradle provides a modern CLI that has
discoverability
features like `gradle tasks`, as well as improved logging and command-line
completion.
Dependency Management
Both build systems provide built-in capability to resolve dependencies from
configurable
repositories. Both are able to cache dependencies locally and download them in
parallel.
As a library consumer, Maven allows one to override a dependency, but only by
version.
Gradle provides customizable dependency selection and substitution rules that can
be
declared once and handle unwanted dependencies project-wide. This substitution
mechanism enables Gradle to build multiple source projects together to create
composite
builds.
Maven has few, built-in dependency scopes, which forces awkward module
architectures in
common scenarios like using test fixtures or code generation. There is no
separation
between unit and integration tests, for example. Gradle allows custom dependency
scopes,
which provides better-modeled and faster builds.
Question: What are Gradle Build Scripts?
Gradle builds a script file for handling projects and tasks. Every Gradle build
represents one
or more projects.
A project represents a library JAR or a web application.
Question: What is Gradle Wrapper?
The wrapper is a batch script on Windows, and a shell script for other operating
systems.
Gradle Wrapper is the preferred way of starting a Gradle build.
When a Gradle build is started via the wrapper, Gradle will automatically download
and run
the build.
Question: What is Gradle Build Script File Name?
This type of name is written in the format that is build.gradle. It generally
configures the
Gradle scripting language.
Question: How To Add Dependencies In Gradle?
In order to make sure that dependency for your project is added, you need to
mention the
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configuration dependency like compiling the block dependencies of the build.gradle
file.

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