visual representation of gradle dependency

Question

i have used the gradle dependencies to analyse the project dependencies.

Does gradle support a visual representation of the dependency graph instead of the current format ( The current format serves very well , but a visual representation would be more easier to read and interpret )

i tried htmlDependencyReport using the below plugin

apply plugin: 'project-report'

But I could not get a visual representation of dependencies

Answer 1

I was looking for the same thing and found this gradle plugin: https://github.com/nevers/gradle-dependency-grapher But I couldn't try it out yet, and don't know if it is working with any current gradle version.

The script seems pretty simple: It just creates a grahviz configuration in the .dot format and feeds it directly to graphiz (seems this must be installed on the system).

If I find some time, I will give it a try. It should be possible to modify the script to just create a *.dot file in the build folder. I could then feed it to http://www.webgraphviz.com/.