Open Source Groovy Build Tools

Gradle is a build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. If you are building, testing, publishing, and deploying software on any platform, Gradle offers a flexible model that can support the entire development lifecycle from compiling and packaging code to publishing web sites. Gradle has been designed to support build automation across multiple languages and platforms including Java, Scala, Android, Kotlin, C/C++, and Groovy, and is closely integrated with development tools and continuous integration servers including Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Jenkins. From mobile apps to microservices, from small startups to big enterprises, Gradle helps teams build, automate and deliver better software, faster. Write in Java, C++, Python or your language of choice. Package for deployment on any platform. Go monorepo or multi-repo. And rely on Gradle's unparalleled versatility to build it all.

fat-aar-android is a Gradle plugin that allows Android developers to package their AAR (Android Archive) libraries with all of their dependencies included. Normally, AARs do not bundle transitive dependencies, leading to missing classes or resource issues when consumed. This plugin solves that by merging the compile-time dependencies into a single "fat" AAR, streamlining distribution and reuse of libraries in projects where managing dependencies separately isn't ideal.

Buildstep is a Docker-based wrapper around Heroku-style Buildpacks. It takes in your app code as a tarball via STDIN, runs the builder script inside a container preloaded with multiple buildpacks, and generates a ready-to-run Docker image, including a generated start script from a Procfile.

The Gradle Xcode Plugin allows developers to build, archive, package, and sign iOS and macOS applications using Gradle. It provides a bridge between Gradle and Xcode’s build tools, enabling multiplatform or Android+iOS projects to use a unified build system. This plugin supports key features like provisioning profile management, dependency integration, and command-line automation for Apple platform projects, making it ideal for CI/CD pipelines or hybrid environments.

The Gradle OS Package plugin builds native Linux packages (RPM and DEB) directly from your project, enabling repeatable, policy-compliant server distributions. It lets you define metadata like package name, version, dependencies, and maintainers, then map files from your build into filesystem locations with ownership and permissions. Pre-, post-install, and removal scripts are supported so services can be registered, caches warmed, or config migrated during upgrades. The plugin fits naturally in multi-module builds and CI, producing artifacts that ops teams can promote through repositories like APT or YUM. It’s widely used to package JVM applications along with their configs, systemd units, and logs into a single deployable unit. By codifying packaging alongside source, it closes the gap between dev and ops and makes releases auditable and consistent.

A collection of useful Groovy additions including builders, extensions for Ant and XOM.

The Android Cache Fix Gradle Plugin is developed by the Gradle team to improve build cache correctness and performance for Android builds. It applies workarounds and adjustments for known issues in the Android Gradle Plugin that interfere with build caching. This plugin ensures that tasks are cacheable when they otherwise wouldn’t be, and it applies targeted fixes for bugs affecting incremental and cached builds, thus improving overall efficiency in Android projects.

Includes quick implementation of componentized build scripts and quick implementation of screen minimum width adaptation scripts. Componentize building Gradle plugins. The name of the plugin pack is: component, which provides two componentization auxiliary plugins, called calces.appconfig and calces.modules. The main functions are providing components that Gradle configures App dependencies on, whether the configuration components can run alone, enabling multiple Apps that rely on different modules to be built simultaneously, etc. Screen-adaptation plugin. The name of the component package is: screen, where calces.screen plugins are provided. The main functions are: According to the design draft and configuration, automatically generate the smallest-width adaptation file, so that you no longer need to pay attention to the screen adaptation.

A groovy build framework. Primarily Ant driven

GAQ = Groovy + Ant + Quartz. GAQ is a lightweight framework for developing, scheduling, running and reviewing automated tasks. It has the scripting ease of Groovy, the power of Ant, and the cross platform scheduling of Quartz. Supports Groovy 1.1 Beta 1.

"Gj" is a script to convert Groovy program to distribution format quickly, easily, and without any effort.

Gnasher alleviates developers from having to execute maven builds with the "-o" option (offline) to avoid accessing external repositories metadata files. SHA1 hash files and the missing pom metadata files for dependencies are created if missing.

HiveMind is a browser based web development that combines an application container (jetty), a middleware and a developer environment that runs in the browser. It runs on the jvm so you are not limited by environment. You can run it on your laptop, company server or even on a cloud service like AWS. It supports Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Groovy, Clojure. Source include so it is easy to hack so you can modify it for your own need.

This is a sample project showing how to use the Jenkins Job DSL plugin in a Gradle-based setup. It provides example DSL scripts that generate Jenkins jobs, and integrates them into a Gradle build for automated job generation, testing, and validation. Configurable job definitions (folders, branches, parameters). Tests for DSL scripts to validate generated XML. Integration with Gradle tasks for generation & testing. Support for seeding Jenkins or updating via REST API. Reuse and modularization of DSL logic.

A series of maven plugins, including a javascript minimizer and an Apache Avro compiler.

Introducing forks for existing plugins and also combining plugins for a set of build tools to be used with gradle.

A web-based graphical interface to the AntDepo build and deployment framework. Webad provides both ad-hoc and scheduled execution of AntDepo commands.