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

Develocity

Discussions

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Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Justin Reock

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

2 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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User Insights

Average based on 38 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

2 months

Perceived Cost

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/17/2015

"more easy to start a new project"

5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

become more easily to solve the jar dependency, build project, package. It also provide many detail docs on how to take use of it for many languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

the integration with IDE may not work very well, sometime the project may be missing, need to re-import Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool:

Almost don't worry about the build process and it become more easy for this. It also provide very detail examples for every process/languages. When start-up a new project, it's better to try this. And it will take less time on set up a new project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

don't worry about the build process. It become more easy for a new project, especially for Start up project/company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Priya A.

Software Development Engineer

Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/23/2015

"Gradle is the best build automation tool available. Learn, contribute and grow with it."

4/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

I like writing script in Gradle for build automation over xml in maven. It provides great readability. And because it is scripting based tool, I can write custom tasks which was not so easy with Maven. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

There are two things I would like to see Gradle improving at

1. Availabiity of sufficient documentation and examples I think providing examples for Gradle would be a great help.

2. Adding plugins popular in Maven world. When a maven user migrates to Gradle, unavailability of plugins is the biggest turn off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool:

Gradle is the best build automation tool available. Contribute to gradle and grow with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using gradle, we have been able to create a build automation framework scripts tailored to projects in my organizations. This saves a lot of time while building new projects to get to the CI-CD automation stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/17/2015

"Gradle: build tool for tomorrow"

5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

It is very flexible

It is fast

Gradle Wrapper

It is modern

It supports many languages / platforms and this number will increase in future

It is based on programming language, not on XML configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

Groovy is used as a programming language. Dynamic languages have poor support in some IDEs

There are many ways to accomplish your needs, dozens of similar plugins on Github. You need to experiment a lot with Gradle

It's a bit more complex (due to its features) than old-style tools like Maven and Ant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool:

If you can - start using Gradle in new projects now. Sure, you'll face problems: uploading to maven repos, versioning, releasing, maybe lack of plugins you are familiar with when using Maven. But starting a new project with Gradle is simpler than moving an existing build because you can solve problems incrementally, not all of them at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm building small- and mid-sized enterprise apps with Gradle. My stack includes: OSGi and Spring (plain old MVC and new Boot) apps. I've used Maven prior to Gradle. Moving to Gradle allowed me to create more expressive and clear build files, drastically reduced build file sizes, and reduced build time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrew H.

Co-Founder and Front-End Developer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/16/2015

"Nice tool for Android development"

5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

it's a declarative domain specific language, which makes it really nice to write in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

I didn't have experience writing in the Groovy style, and felt like I went a long time before properly learning it. It's easy to use Gradle without knowing the language very well, but I would have rather had to a way to quickly learn the language before experimenting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool:

Learn it properly first...actually read the documentation. It will be worth it in the long-term! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I was using it to build Android source code. Declarative nature of it was really nice for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Izzet M.

Solution Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/12/2015

"Gradle is quite good serves source build needs"

5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

Extensibility, plugin system, wrapper capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

Lack of performance, sometimes it's hard to find proper API documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tom O.

MIS Intern

Non-Profit Organization Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/16/2015

"Gradle Review - Thomas Orth"

5/5

What do you like best about Gradle Build Tool?

The ease of adding modules to a project and universability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gradle Build Tool?

The loading time for a project takes a long amount of time on decent computers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gradle Build Tool:

Very good tool. Would recommend to anyone Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Identifying plane crashes with android apps and learned that the gradle system is better than jar files. I have also learned better code practice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.