glombard / GradleTaskDependency

Small demo to show how to create custom Gradle tasks and dependencies between them

See my-tasks.gradle.

Demonstrates the following concepts:

1. Creating custom tasks with dependencies: taskB is dependent on taskA.
2. Using upToDateWhen to to only run taskB if taskA also ran.
3. Using onlyIf to optionally disable taskA if the skip command-line property is specified.
4. How to use afterEvaluate to make a task a dependency of another task. In this case, we make all Test tasks dependent on my custom task taskB.

Examples:

Execute both taskA and taskB before running the unit tests:

./gradlew testDebug

Skip both taskA and taskB:

./gradlew testDebug -Pskip

Also see how to use setDidWork in your task action for even more flexibility...