Get started with Gradle with this in-depth tutorial. You will learn how to run built-in tasks, define custom tasks, integrate Gradle in a Spring Boot project and a lot more.
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https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2018/05/gradle-tutorial.html

New releases from the last week:
IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2 EAP3: Advanced Contract Annotations and More
https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2018/05/intellij-idea-2018-2-eap3-advanced-contract-annotations-and-more/
Gradle Releases Version 4.7 with Support for Java 10
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/05/gradle-releases-version-4.7
Lombok 1.18.0
https://projectlombok.org/changelog
#releases #ide #gradle #lombok

It is quite easy to find articles about “how to create gradle custom tasks”, “how to structure gradle build files” etc. But not very common to find articles about how Gradle really works under the hood. In this article, the author focuses on a small part of the “dark side” of Gradle: the build lifecycle.
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https://proandroiddev.com/understanding-gradle-the-build-lifecycle-5118c1da613f

Want to learn more about the newest source dependencies? This post introduces a new Gradle dependency management feature called “source dependencies." You will find summarized what is the usefulness to have Gradle automatically check out the source for your library from Git and build the binaries locally on your machine, rather than downloading them.
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https://dzone.com/articles/introducing-source-dependencies-in-gradle