Building applications using gradle in the eclipse IDE (Graphic)

Ant, Maven and other tools are often used to build the system. For beginners, they are still too complex and take time to get started. This article will introduce readers to a new way of building projects, gradle, which is simple, quick to start, and can greatly save the time and cost of the project.

1. Download and configure gradle

Gradle Inc. is a gradle framework development company that provides gradle tool support for the eclipse ide. This tool can create and allow gradle projects to be imported into the eclipse ide. It also allows you to run the gradle task and monitor its execution.

First, we need to download gradle. The download path is gradle. The specific configuration has been clearly written on the official website. We can follow the instructions step by step according to our own operating system. Here I take windows 10 as an example.

Finally, install the plug-in integrating gradle with eclipse, which calls gradle's plug-in buildship. You can get the source code of buildship on GitHub.

Take my version of eclipse 4.6 (neon) as an example, you can use http://download.eclipse.org/releases/neon Install. As shown below.