Fun with Gradle

Hi All,

Greetings for the day!!!

Have been wondering from many days as to why should I use Gradle if same features are provided by xcodebuild also

• A command line tool provided by Apple that creates builds/packages.
• It can take input target, scheme, ipa name, signing information etc in the arguments.
• Supports multiple tasks and environments.
• Can be integrated with Jenkins too.

Then why Gradle??

• Build Management along with Dependency Management. Xcodebuild can only do build management and for dependency management it needs Cocoapods.
• If you are working on multiple platforms like iOS and Android then Gradle is the common choice for both.

Now how to Use Gradle with Xcode

1) Install gradle : https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/installation.html or

• In terminal java -version should be 7 

• if not type $ brew cask install java  or $ brew cask install Caskroom/versions/java7

• Download gradle via homebrew $ brew install gradle

• Type $ gradle -v to check its version

2) Create build.gradle file for your project.

3) Navigate to project directory in terminal.

4) $ gradle build

5) Project builds

ta da....

Sample build.gradle file

plugins {

  id "org.openbakery.xcode-plugin" version "0.14.5"

}

xcodebuild {

     target = 'Hello-Gradle'

/* If need to differentiate between iOS and android */

     type = 'IOS'             

/* Set ipa file name*/

     ipaFileName = ipaName 

 /* if u wish to create archive its necessary to set simulator as FALSE coz for archive we need DEVICE*/

     simulator = false        

}

To execute above file code you can also use:

$ gradle xcodebuild