The Buildmetadata Plugin allows to add Provider implementations that add specific build information the plugin does not provide by itself. For instance users may want to connect to a remote build number provider or aggregate information found in the project to flag certain conditions.

Custom providers are guaranteed to be run at the end of the build meta data gathering. This allows those providers to access the information generated by the standard providers. This may be helpful if a provider implementation is used to export build information to a backend system.