Can anyone recommend some good Gradle tutorials I m having a

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Can anyone recommend some good Gradle tutorials I m having a hard time finding good Gradle tutorials I also want to work with the Kotlin DSL

Brian Dilley · Answer

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< Brian Dilley> thanks I will look at this thumbsup

bodiam · Answer

Is there anything specific you re looking for I generally create a Kotlin based Gradle file from IntelliJ to get started with and go as I see fit

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> how do I do this I tried but it didn t work In Android Studio they automatically have a gradle wrapper so it uses gradle by default but I m having trouble with IntelliJ

bodiam · Answer

you go to `File gt New Project gt Gradle gt check Kotlin DSL build script gt pick Kotlin JVM` and that should do it

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> Ok I will tell you if there are problems

bodiam · Answer

that s fine happy to help

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> do I need to also check java

bodiam · Answer

I depends Only if you re planning on using Java You can enable it it doesn t hurt but it s not needed

bodiam · Answer

I think it will only enable the Gradle Java plugin nothing more

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> I get this

bodiam · Answer

not sure what that is Could be just a warning

bodiam · Answer

or maybe click on the `Load Script Configurations`

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> I did but it returned when I press I get this

bodiam · Answer

I just created a new project myself I m getting the same warning as you Gimme a moment

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> yeah strange with Android Studio gradle was automatically integrated in my project so at least I don t have to worry about that

bodiam · Answer

okay I got the same message as you but only while it was indexing downloading Gradle indexing libraries etc

bodiam · Answer

after that the message went away

bodiam · Answer

this is before

bodiam · Answer

and this is after indexing downloading gradle was completed

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> maybe I didn t install gradle properly

bodiam · Answer

you don t have to IntelliJ will download the gradle wrapper itself

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> I got this

bodiam · Answer

you could try reloading the gradle project

bodiam · Answer

well that might be an issue indeed

bodiam · Answer

I don t have a `JAVA HOME` set

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> should I just delete the java home

bodiam · Answer

if you don t need it then yes

therealbluepandabear · Answer

I got this also

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> how come with android studio gradle works fine though but not with IntelliJ

bodiam · Answer

not sure I don t have experience with Android Studio

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> have you set any environment variables for Gradle

bodiam · Answer

maybe just remove that whole Gradle directory or maybe it s in use by something like Android Studio

bodiam · Answer

not sure what you mean with `environment variables for Gradle` Why would you want to do that

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> I don t know I m just confused why I m getting these annoying problems

bodiam · Answer

Oh I call it Software Development

bodiam · Answer

it s an endless series of annoying problems slightly smiling face

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> how did you install gradle in the first place

bodiam · Answer

I didn t

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> how did it come up for you

bodiam · Answer

I only use Gradle wrappers

bodiam · Answer

which are auto downloaded by IntelliJ

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> How do I use a Gradle wrapper

bodiam · Answer

whenever you create a new Gradle project there s a `gradlew bat` If you type `gradlew clean build` instead of `gradle clean build` not the `w` then it will use the wrapper The wrapper will download Gradle if it s not in the project yet so you can have 1 project use Gradle 3 4 and the other 4 6 for example instead of needing a system wide installation which is common with Maven for example

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> tried that but i got Could not install Gradle distribution from

therealbluepandabear · Answer

disappointed

bodiam · Answer

are you behind a corporate firewall proxy The link is fine

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> what do you mean

bodiam · Answer

I m not sure how to rephrase my question

therealbluepandabear · Answer

I m not sure what you meant by that question

bodiam · Answer

basically are you connected directly to the internet or are you at work and this link is blocked by something

bodiam · Answer

usually a firewall a proxy server whatever

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> im not at work im not behind a firewall also

bodiam · Answer

in that case I don t know really

bodiam · Answer

in a case like that I d just try again Sometimes works slightly smiling face

Brian Dilley · Answer

What happens if you click that URL Tom

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> this is my AS project it has Gradle by default but not on Intellij

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< Brian Dilley> you re scaring me lol

Brian Dilley · Answer

No I m trying to help you

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< Brian Dilley> It downloads gradle 6 8 not wrapper for me

therealbluepandabear · Answer

It s already downloaded though on my machine

bodiam · Answer

might be the same problem as you mentioned before with the could not create parent project

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> maybe I should just uninstall gradle and use the wrapper I understand you don t have gradle installed you are just using the wrapper maybe I can try that sorry if it sounds stupid

bodiam · Answer

maybe just kill that directory maybe something is using it or so like the gradle daemon android studio or what not

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> how do I do that

bodiam · Answer

no that doesn t sound stupid and even if it did it might work

bodiam · Answer

just delete the directory

bodiam · Answer

or like you said uninstall gradle

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> ok

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> where is the directory located

bodiam · Answer

it s in your screenshot

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> ok

bodiam · Answer

c program files gradle something something

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> OK I uninstalled it what do I input here

therealbluepandabear · Answer

what does say for your configuration

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> good news I think it s working

therealbluepandabear · Answer

clap

bodiam · Answer

think it s working or it s working How did you resolve

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> i uninstalled the gradle and it did a clean install of what was needed Also How do I create a new Kotlin file in my gradle project

therealbluepandabear · Answer

Also this is how it looks for me is this how it s supposed to look

therealbluepandabear · Answer

Nevermind just created a new file called src and marked it as sources root and it worked

bodiam · Answer

IntelliJ will create and mark those directories for you if you give it a bit of time

therealbluepandabear · Answer

I m getting this new problem

therealbluepandabear · Answer

It s also not finding main which is strange

bodiam · Answer

it s because you don t have Kotlin configured

therealbluepandabear · Answer

< bodiam> how do I configure it