Property management
We cannot make a software available on different operating systems, or different environments without configuring it dynamically. One approach to configure software is by using the properties file or environment properties. The following are the different ways Gradle provides to configure properties to build.gradle
:
ext
closuregradle.properties
- Command line
- Custom properties file
ext closure
We saw many examples in Chapter 3, Managing Task, of adding custom properties to a project using the ext
closure. Thus, we will not discuss the topic in this chapter.
gradle.properties
Gradle provides a default mechanism of reading the properties file using gradle.properties
. You can add the gradle.properties
file in any of the following locations: ...
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