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		aikah on March 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's in a Build Tool? Isn't Gradle based on and using Maven (under the hood) ?

smadge on March 5, 2016 [–]

Gradle allows you to 1) use maven plugins 2) download dependencies from maven repositories. So my understanding is that Gradle is backwards compatible but separate.

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