Aurimas Liutikas May 1, 2025

I'm extremely proud of Gradle Best Practices finally launching to the public. It was a result of many hours of discussions, negotiations, and wordsmithing to bring you the first batch of best practices. It was a deep collaboration between Google, Jetbrains, and Gradle.

I hope you enjoy it!

https://blog.gradle.org/gradle-best-practices

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Gradle Best Practices - A Path to Build Happiness

Gradle Build Tool, also known as Gradle, is a highly flexible and extensible build system. It supports multiple ways to structure and configure builds, making it incredibly powerful—but also somewhat dauntin...

Show threadAurimas Liutikas 
If you have suggestions for areas of Gradle that could use best practices, do share!
May 2, 2025 at 5:34amWeb
Show threadGSalaMay 2, 2025
@Aurimas Convention plugins ?
Show threadAurimas Liutikas May 2, 2025
@GSala anything in particular about it?
Show threadGSalaMay 2, 2025
@Aurimas maybe just when to use them to share build logic. What they are good for and what they are not good for.
Show threadAurimas Liutikas May 2, 2025
@GSala https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/32973
BLOCKED: Add Best Practice: Use Convention Plugins by antohaby · Pull Request #32973 · gradle/gradle

Add use convention plugin best practice with samples

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Show threadGSalaMay 6, 2025
@Aurimas Thought of another one. How to work with secrets to keep them out of version control. I feel everyone is doing different things to inject secrets from places like Vault, Infiscal, or 1Password, into a Gradle build.
Show threadAurimas Liutikas May 7, 2025
@GSala can you share some usecases? What secrets you have in mind? Signing keys? API keys? Etc
Show threadGSalaMay 7, 2025
@Aurimas yes, both of those. There's secrets that need to be used only during the build process, like keystores or google-services.json on Android, and then there's secrets that end up being embedded in a bundle to be used at runtime, like API keys and other identifiers. The latter are of course avoided altogether.
Show threadGSalaMay 7, 2025
@Aurimas There's this plugin from Google that for some reason sits under the Maps platform https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-sdk/secrets-gradle-plugin
Not sure if it's best practice to use it. You could achieve something similar to a .env file with it.
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