Create your First GradleProject with a build.gradle File

Once you have the prerequisites installed, we'll get started by setting up a project that depends on the IHMC Valkyrie package, which contains all of the code needed to simulate the NASA Johnson Space Center Valkyrie Humanoid robot in IHMC's Simulation Construction Set, as well as the code needed to run our software on the real Valkyrie robot. We'll do this by setting up a Gradle project which references some IHMC Maven artifacts.

Create the Project Directory Structure and the build.gradle File

Create a directory called GradleProject and create the folder where your source code lives; the Java convention enforced by Gradle is to have your source code live at src/main/java. You should have a layout on disk like this:

GradleProject
├── src
│   └── main
│       └── java
└── build.gradle

Create the build.gradle File

In your GradleProject folder create a file named build.gradle with the following contents:

apply plugin: 'java'

repositories {
   maven {
      url  "http://dl.bintray.com/ihmcrobotics/maven-release" // IHMC Code releases
   }

   maven {
      url  "http://dl.bintray.com/ihmcrobotics/maven-vendor" // Third-party libraries that we have vendored for various reasons
   }

   /*  
    *  Maven repos hosted at IHMC for some legacy vendored
    *  dependencies we have not been able to vendor on Bintray yet.
    *  This will be going away eventually.
    */
   maven {
        url "https://bengal.ihmc.us/nexus/content/repositories/thirdparty/"
   }

   jcenter() // One of the central Maven repos. You can also use mavenCentral() instead or in addition to.
}

dependencies {
   compile 'us.ihmc:Valkyrie:{{OpenSourceVersion}}' // <- Group: us.ihmc, Artifact: Valkyrie, Version: {{OpenSourceVersion}}
}