How to use Gradle in a Processing project?

Question

I'm about to begin a project that involves making a graphical UI with processing and drawing data from a google spreadsheet.

I've used processing before, but I'm not sure how to use gradle, especially not with the processing IDE, or otherwise access the google sheets api... the guide on google and gradle's sites don't seem applicable to my situation, so I'm sorta confused by them.

Answer 1

Gradle is a build tool for Java (and other languages) projects, similar to Maven. IDEs like Eclipse and IntelliJ support it so you can import projects that use Gradle easily in either IDE.

But it seems that the Processing IDE does not have any support for Gradle, at least as far as I can see.

But I found that someone published a Processing library template which seems to allow you to build a Processing library with Gradle which you can then use from the Processing IDE (you should be able to import it as a library, I think).

Give that a try, hope it works.