Automating Android builds with Gradle
Gradle is a new build automation tool intended to replace older technologies such as Maven and Ant . With that purpose, Gradle can automate the building, testing and deployment process of your Java based applications. The Android project has already upgraded its building tools to use Gradle . Thus, you should really try this if you are developing Android applications. Moreover, if you are following the Test Driven Development (TDD) methodology, Gradle is a must. Installing Gradle First, make sure you have installed a Java JDK (Gradle requires JDK 1.5 or higher). Then, you need to download a distribution from the Gradle website (the current supported version is Gradle 1.6) and uncompress the file into your desired directory. Afterwards, you have to configure the GRADLE_HOME environment variable on your path: export GRADLE_HOME=/your_gradle_directory export PATH=$PATH:$GRADLE_HOME/bin source ~/.bashrc Finally, you can check your working installation by run