Using gradle to find dependency tree

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Is it possible to use gradle to produce a tree of what depends on what   I have a project and would like to find out all the dependencies so I may be able to prune it a little with forward declarations etc

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In Android Studio  1  Open terminal and ensure you are at project s root folder   2  Run   gradlew app dependencies   if not using gradle wrapper  try  gradle app dependencies   Note that running   gradle dependencies will only give you dependency tree of project s root folder  so mentioning app in above manner  i e     gradlew app dependencies is important

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You can render the dependency tree with the command gradle dependencies  For more information check the section 11 6 4 Listing project dependencies in the online user guide

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If you find it hard to navigate console output of gradle dependencies  you can add the Project reports plugin   apply plugin   project-report    And generate a HTML report using       gradlew htmlDependencyReport   Report can normally be found in build reports project dependencies index html  It looks like this

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I also found useful to run this     gradlew dI --dependency  lt your library gt    This shows how are being dependencies resolved  dependencyInsight  and help you debugging into where do you need to force or exclude libraries in your build gradle  See  https   docs gradle org current userguide tutorial gradle command line html

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Note that you may need to do something like   gradlew  lt module directory gt   lt module name gt  dependencies if the module has extra directory before reach its build gradle  When in doubt  do   gradlew tasks --all to check the name

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For Android  type this in terminal  gradlew app dependencies   It will list all the dependencies and the ones with newer versions for you to upgrade like  com android support customtabs 26 1 0 - gt  27 1 1

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Often the complete testImplementation  implementation  and androidTestImplementation dependency graph is too much to examine together  If you merely want the implementation dependency graph you can use    gradlew app dependencies --configuration implementation  Source  Gradle docs section 4 7 6 Note  compile has been deprecated in more recent versions of Gradle and in more recent versions you are advised to shift all of your compile dependencies to implementation  Please see this answer here

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For me  it was simply one command in build gradle add plugin apply plugin   project-report   and then go to cmd and run following command   gradlew htmlDependencyReport  This gives me an HTML report WOW Html report    Or if you want the report in a text file  to make search easy use following command  gradlew dependencyReport   That s all my lord

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If you want all the dependencies in a single file at the end within two steps  Add this to your build gradle kts in the root of your project   project rootProject allprojects       apply plugin  project-report        this task  allDependencies   DependencyReportTask  class            evaluationDependsOnChildren           this setRenderer AsciiDependencyReportRenderer               Then apply     gradlew allDependencies   grep   - - -    grep -Po   w        awk -F        print  1      sort   grep -v        grep -v        uniq   grep                 This will give you all the dependencies in your project and sub-projects along with all the 3rd party dependencies   If you want to get this done in a programmatic way  then you ll need a custom renderer of the dependencies - you can start by extending the AsciiDependencyReportRenderer that prints an ascii graph of the dependencies by default

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For Android  use this line  gradle app dependencies  or if you have a gradle wrapper    gradlew app dependencies  where app is your project module  Additionally  if you want to check if something is compile vs  testCompile vs androidTestCompile dependency as well as what is pulling it in    gradlew  app dependencyInsight --configuration compile --dependency  lt name gt    gradlew  app dependencyInsight --configuration testCompile --dependency  lt name gt    gradlew  app dependencyInsight --configuration androidTestCompile --dependency  lt name gt   If the application doesn t use modules  try  gradle dependencies

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For recent versions of Gradle  I tested with the 6 4 1 version   gradle dependencies --configuration compileClasspath  or if you re using the Gradle Wrapper  gradlew dependencies --configuration compileClasspath  When building for Android with the  debug  and  release  compilation profiles  the debugCompileClasspath and releaseCompileClasspath configurations can be used instead of compileClasspath

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If you want to visualize your dependencies in a graph you can use gradle-dependency-graph-generator plugin   Generally the output of this plugin can be found in build reports dependency-graph directory and it contains three files   dot  png  svg  if you are using the 0 5 0 version of the plugin   Example of dependences graph in a real app  Chess Clock

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Things have moved forward in Gradle so I believe this question merits another answer  Since Gradle 4 3   build scans  were introduced  All relevant info is available in the Gradle docs  1  2   For me  this seems to now be the easiest way to check your dependencies  and generally your build  in a clear  organized way   They are very easy to create  just execute     gradle build --scan      or   gradlew build --scan if you use a wrapper   This produces a randomly generated link where you can see your scan  When opening that link  you enter your email and gain full control of the link  eg  share it or delete it   It has got a lot of info about your build  not just dependencies  You can see your dependencies  their hierarchies  the repository used to obtain them but also a lot of other stuff about your build  namely  its performance  which is of interest in big complex builds   your tests  even your console output and your system configuration  which JDK and JVM was used  max heap size etc     This is a printscreen from a mock project          A build scan is a shareable record of a build that provides insights into what happened and why  You can create a build scan at scans gradle com for free     Note however  that info for your build process will be sent to the Gradle servers  You have full control to delete it when you are finished with your inspection   Finally  you can use build scans with Gradle versions earlier than 4 3 too  you just have to manually add the scans plugin in your buildscript   Edit  Incorporating some feedback from the comments some extra notes  1  It is very difficult to do this by mistake or without understanding that some info for your build will be online  private to you  with the ability to delete it  but still online      When executing gradle build --scan the following message appears     Publishing a build scan to scans gradle com requires accepting the Gradle Terms of Service defined at https   gradle com terms-of-service  Do you accept these terms   yes  no    You have to explicitly write yes and then the message continues     Publishing build scan      https   gradle com s a12en0dasdu   2  In Gradle Enterprise you can host gradle build scans in your own servers  However I have no experience in this and my proposed approach was about the standard Gradle distribution  using Gradle s servers for your build scans     3  Gradle itself promotes the build scans as the way to deal with most your build problems

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In Android Studio  at least since v2 3 3  you can run the command directly from the UI    Click on the Gradle tab and then double click on  yourmodule -  Tasks -  android -  androidDependencies  The tree will be displayed in the Gradle Console tab

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