Can you deploy to a device via Gradle from the command line

Question

What the question says really - can you issue any commands directly to gradlew via the command line to build, package and deploy to a device?

Answer 1

task appStart(type: Exec, dependsOn: 'installDebug') {
    commandLine android.adbExe, 'shell', 'am', 'start', '-n', 'com.example/.MyActivity'
}