Gradle is an often-ignored, but important part of Android development. In this talk, targeted at most practicing Android developers, I’ll highlight a few specific, great ways in which they can use Gradle to enhance their productivity, declutter their projects and enhance their build and deploy processes.

Outline

• Quick Gradle refresher
• Automating common tasks with Gradle scripts
• Automatic deployments with Gradle (and the gradle-play-publisher plugin)
• Writing a simple Gradle plugin
• Writing a Gradle plugin for code modification/generation
• Publishing an Android library or Gradle plugin

Requirements

• Basic knowledege of Android development
• Some knowledge about Gradle

Speaker bio

I’m a full stack developer and I’ve been consulting for startups for the past 5-6 years. I love open-source software and culture and have contributed to a couple of open-source Android projects, including various OpenIntents applications and the Vector.im client. A two-time Google Code-in Grand Prize Winner, I am currently the lead developer at Sizzle Labs Pvt. Ltd and am working with Matrix.org as a Google Summer of Code student.

Links

• http://www.aviraldg.com/
• https://github.com/aviraldg/
• http://stackoverflow.com/users/152873/aviraldg