How to use Gradle to generate Eclipse and Intellij project files for Android projects

Question

Is it possible to generate Eclipse and Intellij project files for Android projects using Gradle?

In maven we would do mvn eclipse:eclipse and in PlayFra

Answer 1

As answered in Issue 57668 by Android team (raised by @arcone)

Project Member #2 x...@android.com

The eclipse plugin is not compatible with the android plugin.

You will not be able to import an Android gradle project into Eclipse using the default Gradle support in Eclipse.

To make it work in Eclipse we will have to change the Gradle plugin for Eclipse, the same way we are modifying the Gradle support in IntelliJ

That is Android team is working on gradle plugin for IntelliJ and gradle plugin for Eclipse needs to be updated too.

What is possible with Eclipse now is

.1. import the project as general project

.project

    OpenSpritz-Android
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

.2. Put 2 Eclipse . "dot" files into modules into /OpenSpritz-Android/app/src/main and /OpenSpritz-Android/lib/src/main

.project

    OpenSpritz-Android-app
    
    
    
    
        
            com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.ResourceManagerBuilder
            
            
        
        
            com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.PreCompilerBuilder
            
            
        
        
            org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder
            
            
        
        
            com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.ApkBuilder
            
            
        
    
    
        com.android.ide.eclipse.adt.AndroidNature
        org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature
    

.classpath

.3. Import as Existing Android Code into Workspace

you can then browse code in familiar way, but even after that you won't be able to run with Eclipse ADT.

.4.

Now you can run build and tasks with gradle CLI or Nodeclipse/Enide Gradle for Eclipse (marketplace)

discuss at https://github.com/Nodeclipse/nodeclipse-1/issues/148