Execute android build tasks in custom tasks

Question

I wanted to remove the project makefile and write some nice gradle tasks. I need to execute the following tasks, in this order:

1. Clean
2. Increment version
3. Build
4. Upload

#1, #3 and #4 are tasks from android and plugin (bintray) while #2 is a custom task. Here is what I have so far:

task releaseMajor {
    doLast {
        clean.execute()
        build.execute()
        incrementVersion.execute()
        bintrayUpload.execute()
    }
}

The run order was not so great as I think clean was run after build. And binrayUpload was running without flavor (release). I've also tried to use dependsOn without success (order not working).

I couldn't find in Gradle doc how to do this properly. When execute in the right order, from CLI, everything works perfectly.

Answer 1

Use mustRunAfter, or finalizedBy for finer order control:

task releaseMajor (dependsOn: ['clean', 'build', 'incrementVersion', 'bintrayUpload'])
build.mustRunAfter clean
incrementVersion.mustRunAfter build
bintrayUpload.mustRunAfter incrementVersion