In this episode, we talk about Gradle Doctor with its author Nelson Osacky. Gradle doctor helps you fix performance problems and errors in your Gradle build. The tool works as a Gradle plugin - emitting prescriptions for all the problems found. Nelson tells us how he came up with the idea behind this tool, and what the future is for Gradle Doctor.

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Show Notes

• 0:20 Intro
• 1:06 Episode Start
• 1:49 Nelson’s Introduction
• 04:22 What is Gradle Doctor?
• 08:44 Remote build cache
• 16:19 JAVA_HOME madness
• 21:36 The most common mistake in your build.gradle
• 24:34 Gradle Doctor and performance
• 31:17 Extensibility
• 33:12 The future of Gradle Doctor
• 39:56 Where to find Nelson online?

Resources

• runningcode/gradle-doctor on Github
• Gradle Doctor Documentation
• How fast does my internet need to be to use the Gradle Remote Build Cache? - Part 1 and Part 2
• The Secrets of the Build Scan Plugin and the internals of Gradle - Video from Android Makers
• @nellyspageli on Twitter
• Nelson’s Website

Show links

• Podcast Website
• The Developers’ Bakery on Spotify
• The Developers’ Bakery on Apple Podcasts
• The Developers’ Bakery on Google Podcasts
• @thebakerydev on Twitter
• @cortinico on Twitter