The Gradle GUI

Apart from the command-line arguments and tools, Gradle provides a graphical user interface. It can be launched with the help of the following command-line option:

$ gradle --gui

It launches a graphical user interface (GUI), which can be used to execute Gradle tasks directly from the GUI.

The Gradle GUI

Figure 1.1

It contains four tabs, which are explained as follows:

  • Task Tree: The directory, under which you executed this command, is considered as the parent project directory. If the build.gradle file is present under this directory, task tree will list out all the tasks available in the build.gradle file. If the build.gradle file is not in this directory, ...

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