[krschultz]

I really enjoy Gradle. I have done significant work with Ant, Maven, and a host of tool chains in the C/C++ world. Gradle seems to have the cleanest DSL. Not every single thing under the sun is supported (Maven seems to be the most comprehensive tool I have used), but Gradle is nice to work with.

[Groxx]

I've been struggling to find out what's even available in Gradle. How does one debug it, or print available methods, or really anything?

My woes are mostly around Android's gradle integration, which appears poorly documented at best. There are tons of magic commands that appear out of nowhere and with no explanation beyond "use this.". And Gradle's massive guide covers things that barely see the light after being seemingly wrapped in several layers by Android's plugin.

I want to give it a real try, but the Android projects I deal with are reasonably complex, would use code generation (`scopes.PROVIDED.plus += configurations.provided }`? wtf does that even do and how in the world would I have discovered I could use it?), and need multiple products. I would have to know what and why before considering switching over for real, but there seem to be some huge walls preventing me from finding out.