Continuing the discussion from Is it possible to pass variable from parent build.gradle to child build.gradle?:
As @luke_daley said, most of what you need to know about sharing dependencies is in documented under multi-project builds. But you can also share variables. For example, given a project like this:
root
|- root.gradle
\- sub
\- sub.gradle
Your root.gradle can define variables in the dependencies block:
subprojects {
dependencies {
ext.springVersion = '3.1.1.RELEASE'
}
}
Which can then be accessed in sub.gradle:
dependencies {
compile "org.springframework:org.springframework.web:$springVersion"
}