Gradle Plugin Concepts

External

• https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/plugins.html

Internal

• Gradle Concepts

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Overview

A Gradle plugin is packaged code that uses the Gradle API to provide additional functionality and extend Gradle core. A Gradle plugin may introduce new tasks, new domain objects, conventions, project layouts and patterns for a specific problem domain. Plugins may even extend the core objects. Introducing their own conventions, plugins are "opinionated", encouraging the user to do things in a certain way. However, well written plugins must provide means to change the default conventions and make it work for non-standard projects.

Script Plugin

A script plugin is simply a file containing Gradle DSL code and possibly Java and Groovy code, that is

Plugin Extension

A plugin is a typical use case for an extension.

Standard Plugins

A standard plugin ships with the Gradle runtime.

• Gradle Java Plugin

Writing Custom Plugins

Custom Binary Plugins