Force Gradle to use HTTP instead of HTTPS

Question

I am trying to build react-native android app, as a dependecy I see I have gradle, but it fails to load on build. Error message:

* What went wrong:
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Answer 1

I had same problem and fixed it.

gradle is forced to get dependencies from jcenter through https proxy.

if you add

maven { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com" }

in your repositories instead of jcenter(), gradle sees this repository as a simple maven repository with http proxy.

your project build.gradle should be like below:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com" }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.3.1'
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com" }
    }
}

Answer 2

replace jcenter() with jcenter { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com/"} in build.gradle

Answer 3

Try this

• run a proxy like freegate

• the root path project in cmd type

  gradlew -Dhttps.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttps.proxyPort=8580

File -> Settings -> Project Settings -> Gradle -> Global Gradle Settings -> Gradle VM Options

-Dhttp.proxyHost=myProxyAddr
-Dhttp.proxyPort=myProxyPort
-Dhttp.proxyUser=myUsername
-Dhttp.proxyPassword=myPasswd 
-Dhttp.auth.ntlm.domain=myDomainName

Answer 4

Go into the gradle/wrapper folder nearby and edit the gradle-wrapper.properties

Then add in a the https to the distribution URL and it should work.

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.10-bin.zip
                    ^

Verify the file you are trying to grab is actually on the repo:

https://services.gradle.org/distributions/

Rerun your command to get the gradle wrapper version.

gradle wrapper
gradlew.bat wrapper -gradle-version="1.10"

Hope that helps.