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Kotlin + Gradle: a technology combination sure to foster developer happiness and productivity.
You can use the official
Kotlin Gradle Plugin
from JetBrains to compile your Kotlin code to target JVM, Android, and JS.
Gradle has features you cannot get from other build tools: A highly-customizable dependency resolution engine, visual build inspection and debugging tools, and many work avoidance mechanisms.
These and other reasons are why
Kotlin itself is built with Gradle Kotlin DSL
and
Gradle is the official build tool for Android
.
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You can bring the elegance and type-safety of Kotlin to your automation.
Using Kotlin and a compatible IDE for your build scripts bestows quick documentation, completion, error highlighting, and refactoring.
Kotlin DSL v1.0 is available in
Gradle 5.0
.
"With great power comes great responsibility." These guides and references help you have the best experience building your Kotlin libraries and applications with Gradle:
- Adhere to performance best practices
? Builds can be more than an
order of magnitude faster
when incremental build,
Kotlin build caching
, and incremental annotation processing are used properly.
- Organize your sources for success
? Following
best practices on organizing Gradle projects
not only sets healthy standards for discoverability, but also lets Gradle, Android, and Kotlin toolchains do less work (read: go faster).
- Explore your build effectively
?
Why is my Kotlin code recompiled even with no changes? Where are these deprecation warnings coming from?
There is no better tool for answering these questions than
Build Scan™
.
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Get help
? Search StackOverflow and Gradle docs at
gradle.org/help
and leverage the
Gradle forums
for community help.