Summary

In this chapter, we have mainly discussed two topics: the Java plugin and the custom plugin. In the Java plugin, we learned about the default convention and properties supported by Gradle. Then we discussed how to customize and configure these properties. In the custom plugin, we showed different ways to create a plugin. However, there are so many plugins to discuss in Gradle. We will be discussing a few important plugins in Chapter 6, Working with Gradle and Chapter 7, Continuous Integration. However, we will not be able to cover all the plugins in this book. We request readers to refer to the Gradle documentation for more details.

In the next chapter, we will cover another important topic in Gradle, which is dependency management. We ...

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