how to do something before a task in Android gradle build?

Question

well,when android studio build,there are many tasks list in the gradle console like the following:

...
:app:buildInfoDevDebugLoader
:extra:ViewPagerIndicator:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
:extra:ViewPagerIndicator:preReleaseBuild UP-TO-DATE
:extra:sweetalertdialoglibrary:preBuild
:extra:Android-PullToRefresh:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
:extra:sweetalertdialoglibrary:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
...

now i would like to do something(just like a task) before one of them(eg " :app:buildInfoDevDebugLoader "), so what code should i write in the build.gradle ?

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you want to add another Action to a task you can use doFirst() to prepend and doLast() to append to the list of Actions.

Eg buildInfoDevDebugLoader.doFirst { println "I am the first action" }