June 2018

Introduction

Welcome to the June Newsletter!

In this issue, we’ll cover a brand-new Gradle release, which annotation processors have gone incremental, and Gradle C++ project support in CLion. In other news, Gradle is hiring — see details below.

From the Community #

Here are some interesting pieces and projects from the past month.

• The story of a Java to Kotlin migration — Lessons learned from JB Nizet migrating sources and Gradle build scripts to Kotlin.
• Generating stubs with Swagger Codegen and Using a custom template for Swagger Codegen — 2 informative articles using Swagger Codegen and Gradle by Arnold Galovics.
• Implementing an intuitive versioning and release strategy — Ben Muschko walks through versioning and release automation with Gradle and Travis CI.
• Treat your build files as you treat your code — In this blog post, Jarosław Michalik advocates for applying good engineering to your build scripts, specifically calling out a strategy for extracting variables and staying DRY.
• Executing Gradle builds on TeamCity — A JetBrains-contributed Gradle guide walking through TeamCity setup for a typical project.
• google/osdetector-gradle-plugin — Detects the OS name and architecture, providing a uniform classifier to be used in the names of native artifacts.
• commercehub-oss/gradle-avro-plugin — Perform Java code generation using Apache Avro via Gradle.
• tbroyer/gradle-incap-helper — Helper library and annotation processor for building incremental annotation processors.

Have a blog post or plugin you’d like to see featured here? Just send us an email with the details to newsletter@gradle.com.

Gradle 4.8 #

A shiny new Gradle build tool release 4.8 comes jam-packed with features:

• Dependency locking, making builds reproducible even when using dynamic dependencies
• New type-safe DSLs to customize POMs or Ivy module descriptors for publishing
• Signing plugin support for signing all artifacts of a publication
• More robust incremental annotation processing
• Kotlin DSL v0.17, featuring faster configuration time and convenient configuration of nested extensions
• Improved Gradle native support allowing better control over system include path and more

Read the full release notes for more details and examples.

Adopting Incremental Annotation Processing #

Since Gradle 4.7, several annotation processors have begun declaring support for incremental annotation processing, with Lombok and Android-State leading the way.

Users of these libraries should upgrade to their latest versions to get faster builds as they opt-in to incremental compilation. You can follow progress of your favorite annotation processors in this GitHub issue-turned feature dashboard.

CLion + Gradle for C++ Projects #

We are excited to share that JetBrains CLion 2018.2 EAP includes support for projects that use the new Gradle C++ plugins.

You can try this out with one of these sample projects or your own and provide feedback via Twitter or YouTrack for CLion.

We think this is a big step forward for enabling better automation of native projects.

Upcoming online training #

• Jun 7: Build Cache Deep Dive
• Jun 26-29: Advanced Gradle Fundamentals for Java/JVM
• Aug 7-8: Introduction to Gradle
• Anytime: Maximizing Developer Productivity with Gradle Enterprise

Gradle is hiring! #

You can improve workflow for millions of developers with a remote-first, flexible, and ambitious team. Interested? Here’s a few of the roles we’re looking for right now.

• Gradle Enterprise Android, back-end, and front-end engineering
• Gradle Build Tool distributed builds and dependency management engineering
• A sales development representative to work with marketing and sales teams

You can learn more at gradle.com/careers.

Until next time!

—The Gradle Build Tool Team

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