Android gradle task Google Appengine

Question

I\'m trying to write a gradle task for my android application that starts the google appengine developer server, runs a test, and then closes the server.

What I\'ve trie

Answer 1

You probably need to run your backend:appengineRun task in daemon mode so it allows the gradle process to continue. See : https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gradle-appengine-plugin#convention-properties

This hack seems to work in my testing

task runAppEngine (dependsOn: ":backend:appengineRun") {
  project(":backend").afterEvaluate { backend ->
    backend.extensions.appengine.daemon = true
  }              
  doLast {
    println "started the server!"
  }
}

runAppEngine.finalizedBy ":backend:appengineStop"
// or whatever task you want it to stop after