I have a simple multi-module Gradle project with Java code. When I import it in IntelliJ Community, it asks me to select the build tool from among Maven and Gradle, and will properly recognize the Gradle modules and show me a Gradle tool window.
When I do the same in Android Studio, I don't get the build tool question, and it won't recognize the projects or show me the Gradle tool window.
How do I get this to work in Android Studio?
Simply Try This,
Go to File -> Project Structure -> Sdk Location
This You will get a option menu like this (the given image)
there you can update your gradle settings.
The answer, as far as I've been able to find out, is: Don't even try. Use IntelliJ instead. Installing it is most certainly quicker than trying to get Android Studio to do this.
How do you open the project in Intellij? Do you open the folder? Or do you open the build.gradle?
Just like a maven project (where you should open the pom.xml, not the folder) you should open the project using the build.gradle, not the folder.
Intellij will then do what you expect and import your gradle project
The least required to make it recognize the project is to add AGP, the Android Gradle Plugin:
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
}
dependencies {
classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.2"
}
}
Then one can define Android modules with:
apply plugin: "com.android.application"
apply plugin: "com.android.library"
apply plugin: "com.android.dynamic-feature"
Then it will recognize the android {} configuration block (without this Gradle DSL configuration block it would not know what or how to build for Android - as it isn't a sane Android project). Just see the documentation linked, this has little to do with the default Java tooling.
Gradle 7.2 is currently required to build. Even if one cannot mix the plugins per module, one can have different plugins per module - or use different IDE, depending on the tooling of the module. How compatible this really is, is being determined by the dependencies used in the Java module. The fact that one can only use either tooling per single module dictates the layout to be applied.
I suspect that you will have to manually move some code from the successful build files in intellij to the android build files.
Recently after upgrading Gradle Android Studio automatically added this to my .idea/gradle.xml :
<compositeConfiguration>
<compositeBuild compositeDefinitionSource="SCRIPT" />
</compositeConfiguration>
What is the purpose of this change?
First there is several points to understand:
The file .idea/gradle.xml is used by Android Studio to store the Gradle project settings.
According to the Gradle documentation:
A composite build is simply a build that includes other builds.
According to the documentation of IntelliJ IDEA on which Android Studio is based, there is two ways to define a Gradle composite build either through the IDE or through the settings.gradle file.
According to the source code of IntelliJ IDEA the value of compositeDefinitionSource can be either SCRIPT or IDE.
To answer your question, the purpose of the compositeConfiguration element in the .idea/gradle.xml file is to define as a default the Gradle composite build by script. If you set a Gradle composite build through the IDE this value will change.
Regarding Gradle Sync on Android Studio.
what does it do?
Why it is needed?
How to debug it?
where to find docs on the subject?
Projects that compile fine from command line have issues with gradle sync instead. I'm interested in the interaction with the android studio environment, cause it's clearly an operation not needed for the sake of compiling a project.
I have tried to clone the following repository on GitHub using Android Studio, https://github.com/AlexKang/favr.git, but I have the error:
Before this I selected build project using Gradle and then accepted anything it wanted to install. I am having similar problems with, https://github.com/mb16/RemindEm.git, where I get that
Each time I selected "create project from existing sources" and then accepted everything it suggested.
What am I doing wrong?
The projects have eclipse .classpath files in the folder. I'm guessing you should be able to import the project into eclipse.
As an alternative to using Eclipse you might want to try using a feature of IntelliJ IDEA (Android Studio's parent project). File > New > Project from Existing Sources... Then select the .project file for the import
I have got some open source projects which I want to have a try. But I want to use Eclipse if the project was made using eclipse; otherwise I would like to use Android Studio.
So how can I know by viewing the source code about the IDE used for the development of a particular project? Is there any metadata in any file which stores the IDE information?
I believe that Android Studio sometimes includes gradle related files. That's how I would check.