Sorting and Reporting Your Dependencies with Gradle

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Shows how to reduce version drift by centralizing versions into a single file or a versions.toml and using Gradle 7.0 version catalogs (feature preview) or Maven boms like Firebase to avoid per-module version strings. Demonstrates diagnostic commands: --scan and dependencyInsight to see why versions resolve. Builds a client-friendly HTML report with the Ben Manes Gradle Versions Plugin plus Groovy HTML builder and Bootstrap — a working solution that took about 4–5 hours to implement.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:14Dependency basics
3. 2:59Common dependency problems
4. 6:14Solving versioning issues
5. 10:25Centralizing dependencies
6. 17:09Using version catalogs
7. 22:40Reporting dependencies
8. 32:14Talk summary
9. 33:07Q&A session

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