Manually install Gradle and use it in Android Studio

Question

I\'m using Android Studio. How can I manually install and use Gradle within Android Studio.

I\'ve downloaded Gradle from http

Answer 1

I'm not sure why there are so many contorted descriptions of doing this. Perhaps because Android Studio (AS) is constantly changing/evolving? Nevertheless, the procedure is this simple.

Assuming you have already installed Gradle in a suitable directory, mean that you probably also defined an environment variable for GRADLE_HOME, if not define it now, and restart AS.

For my example: GRADLE_HOME=C:\Gradle\gradle-5.2.1

Then fire up AS and navigate to:
File > Settings > Build, Execution, Deployment > Gradle

Now, all you need to do is to select: (o) Use local gradle distribution. AS will then tell you it found your local Gradle paths:

Hit Apply and Ok and restart AS.

Now all the Gradle data can be found in your HOME directory, usually located here (in this case on Windows):

# tree -L 2 $USERPROFILE/.gradle/ | tail -n +2

├── build-scan-data
│   ├── 2.1
│   └── 2.2.1
├── caches
│   ├── 3.5
│   ├── 5.2.1
│   ├── jars-3
│   ├── journal-1
│   ├── modules-2
│   ├── transforms-1
│   ├── transforms-2
│   ├── user-id.txt
│   └── user-id.txt.lock
├── daemon
│   ├── 3.5
│   └── 5.2.1
├── native
│   ├── 25
│   ├── 28
│   └── jansi
├── notifications
│   └── 5.2.1
├── workers
└── wrapper
    └── dists

_{Tested on latest AS 3.3.2}