What is the purpose of Gradle?
I could use a little help understanding the concepts behind Gradle(plugin v 0.7) in the context of Android Studio 0.4.0. I have not used Gradle before and it's causing me nothing but problems. I'm not seeing its purpose/benefit because I don't know enough about it. Some specific questions I have What are these dependencies? I'm making a simple app with a navigation drawer, targeted to API 11+ where it should be natively supported. What dependencies could I be using? What is a Gradle wrapper? What changes, if any, does it make to the completed application? Why does Gradle need to be online