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# Project

The basic way to create Gradle project is to use command line. Create a new directory that is named as your project, step into that directory and call `gradle init` task.

```
mkdir hello-world
cd hello-world
gradle init
```

The `gradle init` task creates couple of files:

* gradle.build - contains few predefinied dependencies, but they are all commented out
* gradle.settings - contains project settings, like name of the project
* gradle wrappers - that can be used to use a specific version of Gradle per project

## Source folders

We can add other directories as source folders.

```
sourceSets {
    main {
        java {
            srcDirs = ['other-src', 'src/main/java']
        }
    }
}
```

## Logging

We can turn on or completelly turn off the logging. `-i` is for info logging leve, `-s` is for stacktrace and `-q` for quite logging, that results in no logs.

```
gradle rWAD -is
```

## System properties

```
gradle -DmyProp=1
```

## Project properties

We can print out all project properties using `properties` task.

```
gradle properties
```

## Sub modules

In order to create a project with sub module,`settings.gradle` file needs to contain inclusion of the sub module.

```
rootProject.name = 'myproject'
include 'my-sub-module' // include is for modules included in the project directory
// infludeFlat is for modules that are next to root directory (not in the root directory)
```