Content Tagged "gradle"

TL;DR : create a global gradle.properties file (in <HOME>/.gradle or GRADLE_USER_HOME if defined). Place there the system specific configuration. The other day I had the unpleasant surprise that Android Studio replicated my proxy settings into gradle.properties and got committed to Git…

Today I got the lovely UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION from the dexer in android. Looking on the net yielded several causes and resolutions. Note : I'm using Gradle 2.10, Android Studio 2.0.0-beta2 Caching Apparently, sometimes Gradle is shooting itself in the foot with the caching. The first thing…

I'm having some space constraints and I need to move as much as possible to a non-backed-up place. Gradle home (the .gradle directory) has 2.23GB on my computer. A lot, so it must go. The procedure is simple . Just create an environment variable named GRADLE_USER_HOME: Now all your gradle stuff…

The recent updates in Android Studio eliminate the possibility of passing JVM arguments to gradle. That's quite unfortunate because I quite liked my solution and now I was getting a (not) nice Connection refused message... So I had to find a different solution. Environment Variable As always…

In my previous post I described one thing you can easily do to improve the build speed, namely enabling the gradle daemon . In the meantime, things improved quite a bit: Gradle 2.4 (at the moment of writing) has better speed You can run things in parallel now like other build tools (e.g. make…

TL;DR: If you can, use ext {} with constants (hash). You can do call pointer things too! In the past days I've been trying to add some functionality to my Gradle build file so the version would be determined from the git tag. I've found this excellent entry showing how to get the actual string. My…

TL;DR: Change the java version compatibility in your gradle file (see below) or remove Hugo references from your e.g. "debug" code in Velcro. The other day I discovered a bunch of template-based application generators for android. While they are very interesting and apply some of the best…

I've noticed that building a small application with gradle is slow (in my case because I'm only starting with Android development and I compile stuff way too often). One of the things I found online was a way to speed up building by using the gradle daemon instead. From daemon's documentation…

Update : This is obsolete as Android Studio is going to eliminate JVM arguments for gradle. See this post for a more future-proof approach . The other day I did an exercise to install Android Studio ("AS" henceforth) (0.8.4 at the moment of writing) and create a project with gradle in an…