What is the difference between Gradle and Maven?
The question is about Gradle
The difference between Gradle and Maven lies in their flexibility, performance, and approach to build automation. Gradle is a modern build tool that uses a Groovy or Kotlin-based DSL to configure it. It natively supports an incremental build where only the pieces of a project that have changed are rebuilt, thus greatly improving performance. Gradle is highly extensible, and developers are free to tailor the build process to meet complex project requirements. Given this, Gradle has seen widespread adoption in Android development.
Maven relies on an XML-based configuration system, which is less flexible and more verbose. It is simpler in the case of standard project setups, but for customized build processes in Maven, it becomes cumbersome. Maven performance is slower than that of Gradle because incremental build is not possible in the case of Maven.
Gradle is more flexible and runs quicker builds compared to Maven. For Maven, it is straightforward and flexible, mainly for those projects that only involve standard configurations. Gradle is chosen for modern big projects with a lot of complexity involved, especially in Android development.
