Gradle Essentials

Organizing build logic in multiproject builds

Gradle gives us the flexibility to create one build file for all projects or individual build file per project; you can also mix and match. Let's start with adding a simple task to our root project's build.gradle:

task sayHello << {
    println "Hello from multi-project build"
}

We are creating a task with an action that just prints a message. Now, let's check what tasks are available on our root project. From the root directory, let's call the task tasks:

$ gradle tasks
...

Other tasks
-----------
sayHello

....

No wonder, the sayHello task is available on the root project. However, what if we just want to see the tasks available on a subproject? Let's say :repository. For a multiproject build, we can call ...