title: Is it possible to use the Gradle build system for Android with Eclipse?
body: <p>I've an app that needs to be build multiple times with different resources for different customers (branding, configuration, and pre-loaded data change between customers).</p>
  
  <p>In the wake of this year's Google I/O I've heard about the new Gradle-based Android build-system. So I thought, it would be a good idea, to realize this one-source/multiple-apks scenario using a Gradle build script.</p>
  
  <p>Now here comes my question: How can I get started using Gradle for building while sticking to Eclipse? All the reads I found online point to converting the project to the still immature Android Studio. I'd like to put off migrating to Android Studio until that's declared "safe" for production use by Google.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally, I'd like to be able to hook the build script(s) to the Debug and Run Configurations of Eclipse, very much the same way as I can pick and choose different build targets for debugging and archiving in XCode. If that's possible, what steps are required to make that work?</p>
  
  <p>I apologize for the noobish quality of these questions, but for me this is actually quite an undiscovered country. Any help is appreciated.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong>
  Our team has migrated to Android Studio in late October 2013 and since version 0.4 were are encountering fewer and fewer bugs. If your organization is not super-conservative about adopting pre-1.0 environments for development, I'd encourage you to jump into the cold water and try working with Android Studio and its Gradle build system. The only important thing missing IMHO is decent support for unit-testing.</p>