Get Android gradle plugin & checkstyle working together / command line usage

Question

I\'m evaluating the ability of the new gradle-based build system to reproduce our current ant-based build process and, as a gradle beginner, I failed to get checkstyle runni

Answer 1

To get this to work with my Android project, I had to declare the task explicitly.

Here's what worked for me:

apply plugin: 'checkstyle'

task checkstyle(type: Checkstyle) {
    source 'src'
    include '**/*.java'
    exclude '**/gen/**'

    // empty classpath
    classpath = files()
}

Be mindful that the Android plugin may choose to create a task of the same name in the future or work in conjunction with the checkstyle plugin in different ways.