9a. Gradle upgrade

In this tutorial we will overview basics of Gradle build system.

Step 1: verify what Gradle version you have

$ gradle -version

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Gradle 2.13

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Build time:   2016-04-25 04:10:10 UTC

Build number: none

Revision:     3b427b1481e46232107303c90be7b05079b05b1c

Groovy:       2.4.4

Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.6 compiled on June 29 2015

JVM:          1.8.0_77 (Oracle Corporation 25.77-b03)

OS:           Mac OS X 10.11.4 x86_64

Step 2: update to the newest 

http://www.gradle.org/installation

if you are missing entirely (on Mac using brew):

install brew on Mac:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

and now install gradle on Mac

brew install gradle

If you are updating (on Mac using brew):

brew update && brew upgrade gradle
...
==> Downloading https://downloads.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.1-bin.zip

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$ gradle -version
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Gradle 2.1
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Build time:   2014-09-08 10:40:39 UTC
Build number: none
Revision:     e6cf70745ac11fa943e19294d19a2c527a669a53
Groovy:       2.3.6
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013
JVM:          1.8.0_20-ea (Oracle Corporation 25.20-b05)
OS:           Mac OS X 10.9.4 x86_64

$ which 

gradle/usr/local/bin/gradle

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