Getting Started with Declarative Gradle

In our first announcement, we announced a new experimental project called Declarative Gradle. That post introduced our ideas for a developer-first software definition and how we planned to fulfill our vision for a declarative build language for Gradle.

This was followed by the first Early Access Preview release in July 2024, accompanied by the First Look at Declarative Gradle blog post. It introduced a configuration model called Software Types, a new Declarative Configuration Language (DCL), and demonstrated the potential for tooling improvements and better IDE support.

Since then, we've been working hard on several fronts. In November 2024, we announced the second Early Access Preview of Declarative Gradle. As part of this second preview, we published several project samples that are ready for feedback. These include Java, Kotlin, and Android application samples and a port of the popular Now in Android application.

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With the second EAP, we would like you to try out what we have built so far.

Declarative Gradle is ready for trying out our provided sample projects for Java, Kotlin and Android applications.

Declarative Gradle is not ready for adoption by plugin authors, build engineers or software engineers.

1. Follow our setup instructions
2. Pick one or more of our samples
3. Try out the Declarative Gradle features
4. Provide us feedback