Differences between dependencyManagement and dependencies in Maven

I’m fashionably late to this question, but I think it’s worth a clearer response than the accepted one (which is correct, but doesn’t emphasize the actual important part, which you need to deduce yourself). In the parent POM, the main difference between the <dependencies> and <dependencyManagement> is this: Artifacts specified in the <dependencies> section will … Read more

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

tl;dr Just replace: compile with implementation (if you don’t need transitivity) or api (if you need transitivity) testCompile with testImplementation debugCompile with debugImplementation androidTestCompile with androidTestImplementation compileOnly is still valid. It was added in 3.0 to replace provided and not compile. (provided introduced when Gradle didn’t have a configuration name for that use-case and named … Read more