From the course: Learning Gradle
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Installing Gradle
- [Instructor] Gradle runs on the Java virtual machine and therefore requires the Java development kit to be installed on your machine. Please download the JDK for your operating system and install it as demonstrated in the course Java Eight Essential Training. You can pick any distribution of the JDK you'd like. A good start is to pick the open JDK an open source GPL licensed JDK. You can use this distribution to build and run commercial products for free. Once a JDK is available on your machine, installing Gradle is straightforward. The Gradle project provides various installation methods. We'll focus on the manual installation of the binary distribution bundled as a sub-file. Download the latest stable version of the Gradle distribution from the URL https://gradle.org/install. Extract the file to a directory of your choice. If you look here, I will put it into the dev automation folder under my home directory.…
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