

Almost everyone was doing it exactly like this.Įxcept, some Gradle wizards. Talking to other developers at meetups revealed: This was not just us. It was the circle of „Gradle issues“ and I felt that everyone in the team handled it pretty similar. I did this until some small snippet „solved“ the problem, unknowingly that this will cause some other issue later. All I could then do is copy and paste small little snippets from Stackoverflow, not understanding a single bit what they do and hoping they would work. Whenever I ran into a „Gradle issue“ during Android development, I immediately knew: This is going to be a bad day.

It was always one of the biggest pain points in my carrier as a developer. Let’s talk about the elephant in the room… Gradle…
