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Gradle Build Tool Reviews & Product Details

Gradle Build Tool is the most popular build tool for open source JVM projects on GitHub. It is downloaded on average more than 25 million times per month and has been counted in the Top 20 Most Popular Open Source Projects for IT by Techcrunch. Many popular projects have migrated from Maven to Gradle, with Spring Boot being a prominent example.

Seller

Gradle

Languages Supported

English

Product Description

Declare and execute all tasks necessary to compile, test, package and ship multi-language multi-platform multi-project and multi-channel software, SaaS and Mobile Apps.

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Justin Reock

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Gradle Build Tool Community

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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Gradle Build Tool Media

Gradle Build Tool Demo - Gradle in VSCode

Building an asciidoctor project with Gradle in VSCode

Gradle Build Tool Demo - Gradle Build Scan(tm) Service In Jenkins

Highlighting the Gradle Build Scan service included in a Jenkins build report.

Gradle Build Tool Demo - Gradle in Android Studio

Gradle Build Scripts in Android Studio

Gradle Build Tool Demo - Build Scan(tm) from CLI

Running a Gradle Build Scan from CLI

Gradle Build Tool Reviews (38)

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Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/24/2023

"So standard and unlikely to break I haven't had to look into it until today"

5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

So standard and unlikely to break I haven't had to look into it until today Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

it broke today, forcing me to look into it. Normally it is so unlikely to break I haven't had to look into it until today Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Balaji K.

Principle Member of Technical Staff

Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/7/2022

"Fast, powerful build tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

Gradle is a very powerful build tool in circumstances, especially where multi-level projects need to be developed. The underlying DSL language makes it easier to configure and use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

Nothing much on the negative side. One problem on earlier days was the lag of documentation. But it is no more a valid point nowadays, It is considered the latest than old traditional build tools like ant, maven etc., Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool:

Highly recommend espcialy if you are developing cloud native, CI/CD integrated environement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you?

Building applications is one of the pain point in application development life cycle. Gradle build tool helps to overcome the difficulty of making application builds. It also helps in CI/CD integrations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris H.

Director

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/19/2022

"Gradle Enterprise and Gradle Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

The ability for the tool to handle builds for any language out there. Allows a single build tool for consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

The flexiblity introduces multiple ways to handle different things like uploading artifacts. Would love to see some more standards there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool:

It's worth the effort to do but make sure you have buy in from your development team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reduces the complexity from maven and multiple pom files to a single build file. Also allows for consistency across projects no matter the architecture and languages used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tiffany L.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/10/2022

"Gradle is fantastic for java builds"

4/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

How simple it is to write a script in Gradle and it does everything behind the scenes. You only have to define the dependencies in a build file, setup the files in a format that Gradle will recognize and run the build command and bam you have a build. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

It isn't versatile. It is very difficult to build other languages with Gradle. It is really Java specific. If you do want to build other programming languages with grade be prepared for complex build scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool:

Seriously consider this when building using Java. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gradle Build Tool solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to have simple maintainable build scripts. It is easy to get started and out of the box tool which lowers the learning curve. It has built in commands for both building and testing Java code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ken Y.

Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/7/2021

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"Better than Ant/Maven, slower than Bazel"

4/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

Gradle is a much better build system than Ant on Android for folks who remember that 🙂

It's also much better than writing Maven pom.xml files for the same reason of no XML to wade through.

You can write your own DSL and plugins to make it even more expressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

The Kotlin version built into the DSL never gets updated quickly enough, so you often write kotlin DSL in an older version of kotlin than your project code.

Gradle builds can be slow when you get over 500-1000 modules.

Caching is not as fast as Bazel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Justin Reock of Gradle Build Tool

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Thanks Ken, we really appreciate the review, and we're always working to improve!

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/4/2022

"A powerful tool for managing your builds"

5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

Building a project scales up in complexity very quickly. While small Hello World applications might be easy to manage, large multifaceted projects require a robust tool.

Gradle is that tool. It handles a lot of the complications of building, including dependency management, configuring toolchains, and integrating custom build logic (just to highlight a few of the things that it does). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

Complexity. Gradle has a very steep learning curve, and even after using it for over 8 years, there's is still more for me to learn.

It is a very broad tool, and a lot of components are iterated on rapidly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Danny T.

Senior Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/7/2021

"Best in class build automation tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

Gradle's work avoidance, caching, incremental support are capabilities unmatched by many tools. It's dependency management features are unparalleled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

Gradle is JVM centric so it can be difficult to drive adoption with Polyglot teams with bias against Java. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Justin Reock of Gradle Build Tool

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Thanks so much, Danny, we appreciate your support as always!

Dwayne E.

Senior System Administrator

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2021

"Great tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

Fast build of android application that I use for DJI drones Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

I am still testing the tool with some app that I am working on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Justin Reock of Gradle Build Tool

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Thanks Dwayne for the review, sounds like very interesting work!

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/8/2021

"Gradle ftw!"

5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

The simplicity of having the build tool do all the work for you :-). In particular, the build scans help with teammate debugging sessions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

With Android, sometimes the builds can be slow, but this isn't always Gradles fault, though it looks that way! :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Justin Reock of Gradle Build Tool

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Thanks so much for the feedback and support, Gradle users ftw too! :)

Michelle W.

Intermediate Business Analyst, Strategic Portfolio Office

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/14/2020

"Gradles is a great tool for Android developers"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

Gradle serves as a great integration tool and its allows for quick deployments. It is a great option when you're building Java applications! It is a simple tool and easy to understand, more for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

It was hard to use Gradle with certain web applications and I feel like it is still in the immature stages of being developed. Hard to switch from Maven to Gradle but its a good starting option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.