Hi Everyone. is there any alternative of ```de.undercouch.gradle.tasks.download.Download``` This is ...

# gradle

[Suraj Sahani]

Hi Everyone.
is there any alternative of

de.undercouch.gradle.tasks.download.Download

This is task.register

tasks.register<Download>("downloadBundleTools") {
    src("<https://github.com/google/bundletool/releases/download/1.5.0/bundletool-all-1.5.0.jar>")
    dest(File(buildDir, "bundletool-all.jar"))
}

[hfhbd]

Yes:

tasks.register("downloadLicensesJson", Copy) {

from(resources.text.fromUri("<https://spdx.org/licenses/licenses.json>").asFile()) {
    rename {
     "my-file-name.txt"
    }
  }
  into(myFolder)
}

[hfhbd]

But if you want to use the jar as dependency, you could also setup a custom ivy repository.

[hfhbd]

But this particular artifact is available on Google Maven: https://maven.google.com/web/m_index.html?q=Bundlet#com.android.tools.build:bundletool:1.17.0

[Suraj Sahani]

Thanks @hfhbd

[gildor]

I recommend to use Gradle dependencies mechanism for this with custom repository as Philip suggested, not use download task

Because it looks closer to dependency semantics (something required for build), rather that output of a task

The issue with Download or Copy task, that you have to redownload it every time after "clean", not shared across projects, not saved to dependencies cache and if you use build cache, it actually pollutes it

We migrated from Download on all our cases when noticed how much time we redownload custom dependency

[alllex]

Please consider upvoting this issue in Gradle as well:
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/28530