# Introducing Gradle

DevFeed: [Introducing Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-gradle-30555.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ryanharter.com/blog/2013/06/introducing-gradle/>)

Published: 2013-06-17T07:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Blogs on Ryan Harter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blogs-on-ryan-harter.md>)

Topics: [Gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradle.md>), [Android Studio](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android-studio.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ide.md>), [IntelliJ IDEA](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/intellij-idea.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [android-studio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android-studio.md>), [build-system](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build-system.md>), [code-completion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-completion.md>), [gradle](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradle.md>), [ide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ide.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The author explains why Gradle attracted them to Android Studio after years of using Sublime Text 2 and Ant. They argue that Gradle can support both IDE and command-line builds with shared settings, improving project portability and enabling automated command-line builds and testing.

## Source excerpt

Who Needs IDEs? At Google I/O this year, Google introduced it's new IDE, Android Studio. Android Studio is based on IntelliJ IDEA, a great IDE that many of my Android friends use. I wasn't particularly excited by this announcement because, for the last several years, I've given up IDEs. My development environment of choice has been Sublime Text 2 and ant. Sure, IDEs can be extremely useful, especially in Java, where boiler plate code is the name of the game. But I found that they (Eclipse especially) were getting in the way more than they were helping. I was able to get reasonable reflection based code completion using the great SublimeJava plugin, and I found ant builds from the command line to be amazingly more reliable than anything I could do with Eclipse.