Built in tasks in gradle

Here is the list of built-in tasks supported by gradle.

• Build tasks – assemble, build, buildDependents, buildNeeded, classes, clean, jar, testClasses, compileJava, compileTestJava, processResources
• Build setup – init, wrapper
• Documentation – javadoc
• help – components, dependencies, dependencyInsight, help, model, projects, properties, tasks
• Verification – check, test

Now let us see what is the purpose of each task mentioned above.

• assemble – Assembles the outputs of this project. Creates a jar for the project
• build – Assembles and tests this project. It is actually a combination of 2 tasks- assemble, check
• buildDependents – builds this project and all projects that depend on it.
• compileJava – Compiles Java source files.
• processResources – Processes main resources
• classes – Assembles source classes. It depends on compileJava and processResources
• jar – Creates a jar containing source files
• compileTestJava – Compiles test files
• processTestResources – Processes test resources
• testClasses – Assembles test classes. It depends on compileJava, processResources, classes, compileTestJava, processTestResources
• init – Initializes a new Gradle build
• wrapper – Generates Gradle wrapper files
• javadoc – Generates documentation for source files.
• components – Displays the components produced by root project
• dependencies – Displays all dependencies declared in root project
• dependencyInsight – Displays the insight into a specific dependency in root project
• help – Displays a help message.
• model – Displays the configuration model of root project
• projects – Displays the sub-projects of root project
• properties – Displays the properties of root project like build directory, tasks information, project directory, documentation directory etc
• tasks – Displays the tasks of root project
• test – Runs the unit tests
• check – Runs all checks including unit tests and any verification specified by plugins.