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Gradle Dependency Management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392789
Length 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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In this chapter, you learned how Gradle resolves dependencies and how to customize this. You saw how to reconfigure your build scripts to handle transitive dependencies and how to resolve version conflicts between dependencies in your builds. Gradle offers some fine-grained control on how we define dependencies and allows very explicit dependency definitions.

For transitive dependencies, we have several ways to redefine which dependencies need to be used by either disabling or excluding transitive dependencies.

When a version conflict arises between dependencies in our build, we can either rely on the default strategy of using the newest version or implement a custom strategy. Gradle has several ways to customize dependency resolution rules by redefining the resolution strategy. For example, we can override the version attribute for a dependency or even totally replace it with a compatible but different dependency.

Finally, you saw how the dependency cache of Gradle works. It is designed...

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