Summary
In this chapter, we discussed how to create tasks in a build project. We created tasks with actions in several ways and discussed how to configure tasks.
We skipped tasks by using predicates, throwing StopExecutionException, and enabling or disabling a task. We also discussed how to skip tasks from the command line.
A very powerful feature of Gradle is the incremental build support. If a task is up to date, it isn't executed. We can define the rules to determine the up-to-date state in the tasks definition.
In the next chapter, we will take a more in-depth look at the Gradle Project object. We will see how to work with files and project properties and how to use the Gradle Wrapper.
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