Gradle with Android - Beyond the Basics
Gradle Summit
Palo Alto · June 22 - 23, 2017
About this Presentation
The Android plugin for Gradle does more than just build apps. This presentation will start with the fundamentals, showing how to configure the plugin and add common dependencies. Then it will go beyond them to show useful, practical aspects of Android development that are made particularly easy using Gradle.
Demonstrations will include:
- Adding a signing configuration and generate a release apk
- Creating product flavors along multiple dimensions
- Running both unit and Espresso tests on multiple devices simultaneously
- Merging test reports into a single set of web pages
- Using interesting ad hoc tasks for deployment, skipping tasks with a name pattern, and more
- The goal is to show you how to take advantage of capabilities of Gradle builds in Android that go beyond the basics.
President, Kousen IT, Inc.
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.