How to set gradle home while importing existing project in Android studio

Question

How to set gradle home while importing existing project in Android studio. While trying to import I need to set up this path.

Solution 1

The gradle plugin (which contains a bundled version of gradle) should be already installed in where/you/installed/android-studio/plugins/gradle so you shouldn't need to manually download it. Depending on the version of Android Studio, that last directory may be where/you/installed/android-studio/gradle/gradle-x.y.z (x.y.z is the version, so check your filesystem for the exact path).

If you intend on doing gradle development outside Android Studio or want a different version, you can download it separately and point it at that path, but if you only want to get Android Studio working with the bundled version, this path should do it.

Solution 2

For Mac OS, you can use the following -

1. /usr/local/opt/gradle/libexec/ or more generically - path/to/gradle/libexec/ - this is recommended. (the first path is what's achieved after installing gradle via Homebrew)
2. /path/to/android/studio/plugins/gradle - I don't recommend this because this version of Gradle might be out of date, and Android Studio itself might say it's incompatible.

Solution 3

You should be able to find it in C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\Gradle\Gradle 2.2.1. This is running Windows 7 64-Bit. Android Studio 1.0.2.

Solution 4

OSX (Less han two minutes)

1. Open terminal
2. Check if Gradle installed gradle --version, if so, goto step 4
3. If not brew install gradle and Goto step 2
4. Copy /usr/local/opt/gradle/libexec/
5. Paste it in Import Project Window in Android Studio > Gradle Home
6. Important, Celebrate!

Solution 5

1. Download Gradle http://www.gradle.org/downloads
2. Install
3. Set Gradle home to the install directory

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Comments

[LF00]

Gradle location is incorrect error while importing ActionBarsherlock in Android Studio

[vharron]

The path plugins/gradle is to the gradle plugin, not gradle.

[vharron]

The path plugins/gradle is to the gradle plugin, not gradle.

[byteit101]

Is there any differences between them for the purposes of importing projects in Android Studio?

[vharron]

Gradle plugin 0.9.0 and 0.10.0 both support Android Studio tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system

[AlexChaffee]

I think it'd be better to use a real gradle dir. It's wherever you installed it plus "libexec" for me, e.g. /usr/local/opt/gradle/ (from Homebrew on Mac)

[Tyrel]

I just tried this with Android Studio 0.8.0 and it complained about using the plugin directory. I noticed though that gradle seems to be entirely located within the lib subdir, so I then instead pointed Android Studio to where/you/installed/android-studio/plugins/gradle/lib and it worked.

[Calin]

A better option will be to use /usr/lib/gradle/default no to depend on specific version

[Tim Boland]

on a mac, this didnt work for me...wouldnt allow me to select the build.gradle file for my project

[hotzen]

Do not point it to the gradle-plugin but to the gradle-library which is in .../android-studio/plugins/gradle/**lib**

[lagos]

If you point to the gradle-lib as last person commented you will get an error from Android Studio that is not the right folder.

[OKGimmeMoney]

the directory in this answer was different for me. I used /install/path/to/android-studio/gradle/gradle-2.2.1

[akauppi]

@AlexChaffee Could you share the whole path entry you have there. I'm also on OS X + Homebrew. What do you mean by 'plus "libexec"', precisely? IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.3, gradle 2.3

[akauppi]

Thanks, /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/2.3/libexec/ worked for me. + you might add that your reply has to do with OS X + Homebrew.

[akauppi]

OS X + Homebrew: /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/2.3/libexec/

[Morteza Soleimani]

Thanks , It helped me :)

[mnzl]

Line 68 in the /usr/bin/grade file

[Friedrich Große]

Also works on fedora 22 if gradle has been installed using dnf

[htafoya]

how to know the install directory?

[stackdave]

say me: "graddle libexe is not supported, would you like to use graddle wrapper to update automatically ?" i clicked "yes" and alles was ok, it was strange because ; "brew info gradle " give this folder "/usr/local/Cellar/gradle/3.1" but Android Studio does not recognise gradle there

[David]

Excellent. The key info for me here was that you need to point it to [...]/libexec

[jim]

Mine was here: C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\gradle\gradle-3.2

[Kingsley Ijike]

Thanks! Just what I needed

[The incredible Jan]

@htafoya how to know which operating system and installation type you use? "Installing manually" should be the easiest on all systems. The "install" directory is the directory where you extract to.

[user3118604]

@htafoya you can follow the official per-OS Gradle instructions found here gradle.org/install/#manually

[Carnal]

That's how you do it!