Stavro Xhardha

Tag: groovy

  • Gradle Version Catalogs

    Gradle Version Catalogs

    As many of you already might know, Gradle has introduced a new (yet unstable) way to centralize dependency declarations. In huge codebases and in multi-module projects, managing gradle dependencies has always been hard. Another problem that previous solutions had, was that no two projects were using gradle declaration or configurations the same. In Android, you…

  • Setting up Gradle with Kotlin DSL, a simple guide

    Setting up Gradle with Kotlin DSL, a simple guide

    Kotlin is a very a pretty nice adoptive language and user friendly. It really replaced Java from my everyday programming. However, it was not enough. We all know that groovy runs on JVM. So, why do I even need a new language just for my builds? Can’t it be Java? So Java is the basic…