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Android Development with Gradle

This presentation has two goals: show Android developers how the new Gradle build system works, and show experienced Gradle developers how to build Android projects. The talk will examine the Android plugin for Gradle and how it can be used to build and test Android projects.

Specific topics will include the new Android project structure, using Gradle both from the command line and inside Android Studio, porting projects from the Eclipse ADT to Android Studio, run integration tests with Gradle, and more.


Kenneth Kousen

About Kenneth Kousen

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.

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