How to use Gradle to generate JavaDoc in Android Studio?

Question

I can not find any documentation on how to configure my Gradle file to create the JavaDoc for my project. I already tried some snippets from SO and blog articles but none of the

Answer 1

In our projects we added the following to the app's build.gradle:

android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
  task("generate${variant.name.capitalize()}Javadoc", type: Javadoc) {
    description "Generates Javadoc for $variant.name."
    source = variant.javaCompile.source
    ext.androidJar = "${android.sdkDirectory}/platforms/${android.compileSdkVersion}/android.jar"
    classpath = files(variant.javaCompile.classpath.files) + files(ext.androidJar)
    options.links("http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/");
    options.links("http://d.android.com/reference/");
  }
}

This will add tasks to the build of the form generateJavadoc. So let's say you have a free and a pro version of your app, this would add tasks like:

generateFreeDebugJavadoc
generateFreeReleaseJavadoc
generateProDebugJavadoc
generateProReleaseJavadoc

Hope this helps