//You can specify JVM arguments to Gradle daemon by entering a line in ~/.gradle/gradle.properties as shown below.
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8
android.enableBuildCache=true
android.builder.sdkDownload=true



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Use alfi to find the gradle dependency statement for a library

Its basically the command line version of Gradle, Please which is a web hosted.
Run

alfi name_of_library


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Calculate the version code and version name in your build.gradle automatically, based on git information*

Note: These functions go specifically inside the app's build.gradle and cannot be used with ext.
In your app's build.gradle

// Version code is calculated as the number of commits from last commit on master
def getVersionCode = { ->
  try {
    def code = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
    exec {
      commandLine 'git', 'rev-list', 'HEAD', '--count'
      standardOutput = code
    }
    return Integer.parseInt(code.toString().trim())
  } catch (exception) {
    return "1";
  }
}

// Version name is Last Tag Name + No. of commits form last Tag +  short git sha
def getVersionName = { ->
  try {
    def stdout = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
    exec {
      commandLine 'git', 'describe', '--tags', '--dirty'
      standardOutput = stdout
    }
    return stdout.toString().trim()
  } catch (exception) {
    return "0.0.0.1";
  }
}

// Use
android{
  defaultConfig {
    ...
    versionCode getVersionCode()
    versionName getVersionName()
    ...
  }
}