How to specify the JDK version in android studio?

Question

Android Studio is giving me a Gradle build error that looks like this:

Error:(3, 22) compileSdkVersion android-22 requires compiling with JDK 7

Answer 1

On a Mac, you can use terminal to go to /Applications/Android Studio.app/Contents/jre/jdk/Contents/Home (or wherever your Android SDK is installed) and enter the following in the command prompt:

./java -version