The creators of Gradle Build Tool
We created Gradle Build Tool.We still build it.
Gradle Build Tool is the open source build system of choice for Java, Android, and Kotlin developers — Free, Apache 2.0 licensed, and downloaded more than 100 million times a month. Its full-time engineering team works at Develocity, and always has.
Explore Gradle Build Tool at gradle.org100M+
downloads per month
Android
the official build system
8K+
community plugins
20+
full-time engineers
Trusted by engineering teams at:
Our Mission
Gradle Build Tool automates building software of any type, size, or complexity. The unique advantage of Gradle Build Tool is its elegant and extensible declarative build language
Learn more about us at gradle.orgWidespread adoption
Trusted by millions of developers
Monthly downloads of Gradle Build Tool, 2013 to today.
Everything we learned building Gradle went somewhere.
Develocity is our commercial platform: toolchain observability, caching, and context engineering for every major build system — Maven, Bazel, npm, sbt, and Python as well as Gradle. Different product. Same engineers. Same obsession with the toolchain.
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