Understanding Gradle and writing your own Gradle Plugin

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Shows how to write a Gradle plugin in Kotlin that compiles into a jar with a META-INF plugin properties file, publishes to mavenLocal, registers tasks using register tasks lazily (task configuration avoidance) instead of creating them eagerly, marks inputs/outputs with @Input/@Output annotations so tasks become incremental and up-to-date, and annotates tasks @CacheableTask with path sensitivity so outputs hit a local or remote build cache (Docker server). Tests use Gradle TestKit and --profile/--scan to find slow plugins; Android adds ~500 tasks per module.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Gradle plugins
2. 3:26Plugin implementation basics
3. 9:25Writing a custom Gradle plugin
4. 13:13Gradle tasks and configuration
5. 18:24Incremental builds and caching
6. 23:16Testing and profiling plugins
7. 31:02Summary and best practices

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