Ok. so all those issues last week I can’t get past, so I’m trying to step back and start over. I’ve stepped back to the start and am just trying to convert the project to gradle 5 from gradle 1.12. It’s quite difficult.

Yeah, it can be not easy for sure. Just an advice, maybe you also could try ask on Gradle Community Slack? A lot of plugin authors and Gradle engineers are there

when did gradle get a slack!?!?! I thought the gradle team was refusing to add a slack or irc because there would be no history retained.

I don't want to say your questions are off topic for this channel, just probably there is easy to find Gradle only advices

yeah i would love to have asked there, but i thought it didn’t exist!!!

If invite link doesn’t work ping me, I will ask Gradle guys to update it

I got in. thank you for your help!