An overview of how custom Gradle plugins can be used to improve developer experience by encapsulating common setups. We will see how using Gradle's new Kotlin DSL can be used to make this development much easier. We will also review some best practices and how to avoid common gotchas.

Audience should have some familiarity with using Gradle as a build tool, but experience with developing plugins is not needed.

This was presented at JConf 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kNLBmAMAno