Once we install Android Studio (or just gradle itself), it is very comfortable to have it added to our PATH, which makes us able to run commands like
gradle task1
from any Android project’s folder.
One way to do that is adding gradle’s path to our PATH variable. Under MacOS X, this is done with the following steps.
1.- In terminal:
export GRADLE_HOME=/Applications/Android\ Studio.app/Contents/gradle/gradle-2.2.1
*We assume we’re using the bundled Gradle that comes with Android Studio. You can place gradle anywhere else, like your /Users/user folder, and use this location. Example:
export GRADLE_HOME=/Users/jimmy/gradle-2.2.1
2.- Now, let’s have a look at our PATH variable. In terminal:
echo $PATH
It should look like:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin: ... (more system folders separated by ":" )
To append gradle’s folder at the end of our path:
export PATH=$PATH:$GRADLE_HOME/bin
Now, execute “echo $PATH” again, and you should see gradle’s folder appended in the end, separated by a “:”.
If you were successful on step 2, you should now be able to execute:
gradle –version
And see an output like:
------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 2.2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------ Build time: ... Build number: none Revision: 6fcb59c06f43a4e6b1bcb401f7686a8601a1fb4a Groovy: 2.3.6 Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013 JVM: 1.6.0_65 (Apple Inc. 20.65-b04-462) OS: Mac OS X 10.9 x86_64
Hope it helps!
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