From the course: Complete Guide to Android Development with Kotlin for Beginners

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Introduction to Gradle

Introduction to Gradle

From the course: Complete Guide to Android Development with Kotlin for Beginners

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Introduction to Gradle

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- [Instructor] Android Studio uses Gradle as the foundation of the build system, with more Android-specific capabilities provided by the Android plugin for Gradle. The Android build system compiles your app resources and source code and packages them into APKs that you can test, deploy, and distribute. But what is Gradle exactly? Gradle is an open-source build automation tool. It uses build scripts that are written using either the Groovy or Kotlin programming languages. It's designed to help you automate and manage your build process. It does this using build configurations, which we're going to see an example of shortly. Gradle is also highly customizable. You can create multiple APKs for your app, with different features using the same project and modules. It's truly a powerful tool. This build system runs as an integrated tool from within Android Studio and independently from the command line. This flexibility comes in handy as you develop more complex Android applications. In…

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