Android Gradle remote scripts using 'apply from:' what does it do

Question

This is about an android project. I have a secure gradle code i'd like to run locally but i want it to be hosted on https server somehwere else. Thus in my android build.gradle file i have declared something like this:

apply from: 'http://server-url/nexus/service/local/get_MY_SCRIPT?locale=en&country=USA

My question is what exactly is going to happen here, will this run locally or will the script run from the https servers machine ? What i want is for the remote script commands to run on the local machine where i am calling from. I am doing this in android

Answer 1

With that command gradle will simply copy the script over and execute everything locally.

By "copy" I mean, it will be in some temporary, in-memory thing, if the script changes on the remote, you can expect that on future executions locally the changes will be reflected.

A good example of that being used can be seen here: https://github.com/chrisbanes/gradle-mvn-push

This script is hosted in github.com servers and gets executed by potentially thousands of developers local machines or CI servers.