In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "In our first build we only have one task, so the command gradle h should work just fine."

A block of code is set as follows:

task helloWorld << {
  println 'Hello world.'
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

apply plugin: 'java'

archivesBaseName = 'gradle-sample'
version = '1.0'

sourceSets {
    api
}

task apiJar(type: Jar) {
    appendix = 'api'
    from sourceSets.api.output
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

hello-world $ gradle helloWorld
:helloWorld
Hello world.

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 2.047 secs

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "We select the plugin and click on the button Install without restart".