Gradle plugin to support the Groovy language for building Android apps
This now-deprecated Gradle plugin enabled the use of the Groovy programming language in Android applications and libraries. It provided support for Groovy source files within Android projects, though it’s officially deprecated in favor of Kotlin and has ceased working with Gradle 6.0 and above. This plugin has been successfully tested with Android Studio and will make no attempts to add support for other IDEs.
Gradle plugin which downloads and manages your Android SDK
...It currently takes about 100ms on average to check all of the above conditions. This cost is only paid when Gradle is setting up the model for the project. If you use the Gradle daemon or useAndroid Studio this only happens once.