Declaring custom 'clean' task when using the standard Gradle lifecycle plugins is not allowed

Question

I am adding a library to jCenter so to do that I needed to add some plugins to my project\'s build.gradle file. However, I am getting the error

Declar

Answer 1

You should not try to override the default clean task, but instead configure it to delete additional stuff like

clean {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

But check first whether this is not the default behavior of the clean task anyway.

Alternatively if you want to be able to do a specific clean action individually, you can also define a separate task and add a dependency like

task customClean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}
clean.dependsOn customClean