One important feature that needs some explaining are closures. Mind that in both cases the result will be the same regardless of parameters order! Also notice omitted parentheses in both calls. This will print 'John is 24 years old' followed by John works as Android developer at Tooploox. Other (non-named arguments) are then appended to parameters list: If you invoke Groovy method with named parameters, they are converted into a map and passed as first argument of the method.

if the last parameter is a closure (for now think lambda), it can be written outside the parentheses:.

there’s no need for parentheses when calling methods with at least one parameter (if it’s unambiguous):.

Syntax is easy to grasp if you know Java, and for us it’s important that: Gradle files are basically Groovy scripts. In this post we’ll write, step by step, Gradle configuration files for a single Android project in order to take some of the magic away. Anything more complicated than that, and we end up copy-pasting mysterious snippets from Stack Overflow, without understanding how they work. For most purposes we don’t need to modify our *.gradle files much we add dependencies, modify target and minimum API levels, maybe set up signing configs and build types.

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