Is there a way to list task dependencies in Gradle?

Question

./gradle tasks lists \"some\" of the tasks. Looking at http://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/java_plugin.html there are hidden ones not listed. Also, othe

Answer 1

gradle task tree can be visualized by gradle tasks --all or try the following plugins:

Graphs Gradle and Talaiot: Look into this: https://proandroiddev.com/graphs-gradle-and-talaiot-b0c02c50d2b1 blog as it lists graphically viewing tasks and dependencies. This uses free open Graphviz tool Gephi (https://gephi.org/features/)

gradle-task-tree: https://github.com/dorongold/gradle-task-tree and

gradle-visteg: https://github.com/mmalohlava/gradle-visteg

1. gradle-visteg plugin: The generated file can be post-processed via Graphviz dot utility.

2. For example, png image is produced as follows:

   cd build/reports/; dot -Tpng ./visteg.dot -o ./visteg.dot.png

For more information, please visit Graphviz home page.

Whatever tasks are actually used to run a task (for ex: build) can be viewed in nice HTML page using --profile option

gradle --profile clean build

Once this is complete, go to build/reports/profile folder and browse the .html file. You'll see dependencies resolution and other info with time it took in a nice html page.