Introduction

Welcome to the June 2023 Gradle Build Tool newsletter.

This edition covers recent content from the community and new training courses added to our complimentary training program.

From the Community

Blog Posts

• Weeks of Debugging Your Build Can Save You Hours of Learning Gradle - shares how spending just a few hours learning Gradle instead of copy-pasting snippets will save you weeks of debugging
• How to Automate Tasks Using Gradle in Android Studio - describes how to leverage Gradle to automate repetitive tasks and streamline your development workflow
• Migrating My Build Gradle Files From Groovy To Kotlin DSL - explains how to migrate your project from Groovy to Kotlin in Android Studio Giraffe, as Kotlin DSL becomes the new standard for Gradle scripts

Videos

• Understanding Gradle #33 – Classpath and Module Path in Testing - represents part 8 of ‘How does modularity in Java work’ by Jendrik Johannes

From the Gradle Team

Expanded Training Program

The free Gradle Build Tool training journey has been expanded to 11 training sessions at 3 proficiency levels, from beginner to advanced. Several courses have been split into smaller ones, and the advanced courses have been expanded.

If you are starting with Gradle, the introduction course is now split into two shorter courses. Here you can first learn how to interact with it as a software developer in the Introduction to Gradle Build Tool for Developers, or jump straight into the fundamentals of build authoring in the Introduction to Gradle Build Tool for Build Engineers.

Previously, caching and dependency management topics were covered mostly in advanced courses. We now offer new, dedicated intermediate-level courses about Incremental Builds and Build Caching and Dependency Management. If you are an advanced user, you can sign up for Gradle Build Cache Deep Dive and Advanced Dependency Management, which cover those topics in greater depth.

Several new sessions will become available in August 2023, which you can find on our training and events page. We hope you’ll join the thousands of software professionals learning from Gradle training courses.

Careers

If you share our passion for developer productivity and tooling, consider joining the globally distributed Gradle Inc. team—now in 30 countries!

Specifically in the Gradle Build Tool team, we currently have the following open positions:

• Developer Advocate
• Security Software Engineer
• Developer Productivity Engineer

Check out all Gradle Inc. job openings here: gradle.com/careers

Upcoming Events with Gradle

July 12, 10am - 11am PT – DPE Lowdown: How Spotify Does DPE with Backstage

July 20, 6am - 9:15am PT – Online Training: Android Apps with Gradle Build Tool - EMEA

July 25, 9am - 1:30pm PT – Online Training: Introduction to Gradle Build Tool

July 26, 9am - 12:15pm PT – Online Training: Android Apps with Gradle Build Tool

August 21-23, Industry Event: SpringOne - Las Vegas, Nevada

September 11-14, Industry Event: Scala Days - Madrid, Spain

September 13, Industry Event: Swamp Up - San Jose, CA

September 13, Industry Event: DevOps World - New York, New York

September 14-15, Industry Event: Droidcon - New York, New York

September 21-22, Gradle Hosted Event: DPE Summit - San Francisco, California

September 22-24, Industry Event: NFJS - Boston, Massachusetts

September 27, Industry Event: DevOpsWorld - Chicago, Illinois