In Gradle, how do I declare common dependencies in a single place?

Question

In Maven there is a very useful feature when you can define a dependency in the section of the parent POM, and reference that depen

Answer 1

This blog post suggest managing dependencies and groups as configurations: https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2016/05/manage-dependencies-gradle-multi-project-build.html

I have not tried it myself, but it looks interesting.

Root project build.gradle

subprojects {
  configurations {
    commonsIo
  }

  dependencies {
    commonsIo 'commons-io:commons-io:2.5'
  }
}

Sub-project build.gradle

configurations {
  compile.extendsFrom commonsIo
}