With the latest Visual Studio release, if you take a look at the cross-platform C++ section in the File->New project template section, you will see a variety of templates as shown in the figure below. manifest entries – minSDKVersion, targetSDKVersion etc.), use the built-in dependency management via Maven or Ivy and essentially have access to a single, authoritative build that powers both the Android Studio IDE and builds from the command-line but this ability to use Gradle in Visual Studio has been missing until recently. With a simple, declarative Domain specific language (DSL), Gradle developers can easily describe and manipulate the build logic (e.g.

Gradle allows Android developers to use a simple, declarative DSL to configure Gradle builds supporting a wide variety of Android devices and App stores.

Gradle provides flexibility as well as the ability to define common standards for Android builds. Gradle has really been the default build system for Android for quite some time and Android developers have slowly but surely been moving to Gradle. This blog post is going to talk about how you can use Gradle to build Android libraries (.AAR) and APK’s and leverage Maven dependencies all in Visual Studio so let’s get started! If you are new to Gradle, then take a look at the gradle overview page and the User Guide.

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