Creating your first Gradle project (practical)

Setup your Gradle project

open a terminal and navigate to your home directory
create a directory for the project:

mkdir get-going-with-gradle
navigate into the directory:

cd get-going-with-gradle
create a Gradle project:

gradle init
select the type of project to generate:

1
select the build script DSL:

1
accept the project name:

<enter>
if asked ‘Generate build using new APIs and behavior?’, accept the default:

<enter>

Try interacting with the project:

./gradlew help (Linux/Mac)

gradlew.bat help (Windows)

List available tasks:

./gradlew tasks (Linux/Mac)

gradlew.bat tasks (Windows)

Look at the different files in the project:

ls -l (Linux/Mac)

dir (Windows)

Look inside build.gradle:

cat build.gradle (Linux/Mac)

type build.gradle (Windows)

Look inside settings.gradle:

cat settings.gradle (Linux/Mac)

type settings.gradle (Windows)

Look at any hidden files or directories:

ls -la (Linux/Mac)

dir/a (Windows)

Look inside the .gitignore:

cat .gitignore (Linux/Mac)

type .gitignore (Windows)

Initialise this directory as a Git repository:

git init

Get all the files ready to be committed:

git add .

See what files are staged for commit:

git status

Commit everything:

git commit -m "Initialise project"

Good work! You just created your first Gradle project and committed it into version control.