What’s the difference between implementation, api and compile in Gradle?

After updating to Android Studio 3.0 and creating a new project, I noticed that in build.gradle there is a new way to add new dependencies instead of compile there is implementation and instead of testCompile there is testImplementation. Example: implementation ‘com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.0.0’ testImplementation ‘junit:junit:4.12’ instead of compile ‘com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.0.0’ testCompile ‘junit:junit:4.12′ What’s the difference between them and … Read more

What is Gradle in Android Studio?

Gradle is a bit confusing to me, and also for any new Android developer. Can anyone explain what Gradle in Android Studio is and what its purpose is? Why is it included in Android Studio? 2 26 Short Gradle is a build system. Long Before Android Studio you were using Eclipse for your development purposes, … Read more

Gradle does not find tools.jar

Found it. System property ‘java.home’ is not JAVA_HOME environment variable. JAVA_HOME points to the JDK, while java.home points to the JRE. See that page for more info. Soo… My problem was that my startpoint was the jre folder (C:\jdk1.6.0_26\jre) and not the jdk folder (C:\jdk1.6.0_26) as I thought(tools.jar is on the C:\jdk1.6.0_26\lib folder ). The compile line in dependencies.gradle … Read more

Web server failed to start. Port 8080 was already in use. Spring Boot microserviceWeb server failed to start. Port 8080 was already in use. Spring Boot microservice

If you don’t want the embedded server to start, just set the following property in you application.properties (or .yml): spring.main.web-application-type=none If your classpath contains the necessary bits to start a web server, Spring Boot will automatically start it. To disable this behaviour configure the WebApplicationType in your application.properties Source: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/howto-embedded-web-servers.html If you application really is a Web application, then you can … Read more

Web server failed to start. Port 8080 was already in use. Spring Boot microservice

If you don’t want the embedded server to start, just set the following property in you application.properties (or .yml): spring.main.web-application-type=none If your classpath contains the necessary bits to start a web server, Spring Boot will automatically start it. To disable this behaviour configure the WebApplicationType in your application.properties Source: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/howto-embedded-web-servers.html If you application really is a Web application, then you can … Read more