How can I force gradle to redownload dependencies

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How can I tell gradle to redownload dependencies from repositories

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One can remove folder with cached jars   In my case  on Mac the library was cached at path    Users MY NAME  gradle caches modules-2 files-2 1 cached-library-to-remove  I removed the cached library folder   cached-library-to-remove  in above example   deleted the build folder of my project and compiled again   Fresh library was downloaded then

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This worked for me  Make sure Gradle is not set to offline by unchecking button at File Settings Gradle Offline Work   Add this to the top level of your build gradle  nice to have above dependencies  configurations all       resolutionStrategy cacheChangingModulesFor 0   seconds      I made sure my dependencies are written like this   implementation  com github juanmendez ThatDependency ThatBranch-SNAPSHOT         changing   true     Thereafter  I open the Gradle panel in Android Studio and click the blue circle arrows button  I can always see my updates getting a new fresh copy

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Deleting all the caches makes download all the dependacies again  so it take so long time and it is boring thing wait again again to re download all the dependancies    How ever i could be able to resolve this below way    Just delete groups which need to be refreshed    Ex   if we want to refresh com user test group   rm -fr    gradle caches modules-2 files-2 1 com user test    then remove dependency from build gradle and re add it   then it will refresh dependencies what we want

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If you are using a recent version of Gradle  you can use --refresh-dependencies option      gradlew build --refresh-dependencies   you can refer to the Gradle manual      The --refresh-dependencies option tells Gradle to ignore all cached entries for resolved modules and artifacts  A fresh resolve will be performed against all configured repositories  with dynamic versions recalculated  modules refreshed  and artifacts downloaded

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If you are using eclipse and if you want force eclipse to re load dependencies you could try below command   gradlew clean cleaneclipse build eclipse --refresh-dependencies

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You can tell Gradle to re-download some dependencies in the build script by flagging the dependency as  changing   Gradle will then check for updates every 24 hours  but this can be configured using the resolutionStrategy DSL  I find it useful to use this for for SNAPSHOT or NIGHTLY builds   configurations all          Check for updates every build     resolutionStrategy cacheChangingModulesFor 0   seconds      Expanded   dependencies       implementation group   group   name   projectA   version   1 1-SNAPSHOT   changing  true     Condensed   implementation  group projectA 1 1-SNAPSHOT     changing   true     I found this solution at this forum thread

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There is 2 ways to do that    Using command line option to refresh dependenices cashe   You can delete local cache where artefasts are caches by Gradle and trigger build   Using --refresh-dependencies option     gradlew build --refresh-dependencies   Short explanation --refresh-dependencies option tells Gradle to ignore all cached entries for resolved modules and artifacts    Long explanantion   WIth    refresh-dependencies     Gradle will always hit the remote server to check for updated artifacts  however  Gradle will avoid downloading a file where the same file already exists in the cache     First Gradle will make a HEAD request and check if the server reports the file as unchanged since last time  if the    content-length    and    last-modified    are unchanged   In this case you   ll get the message   Cached resource is up-to-date  lastModified        Next Gradle will determine the remote checksum if possible  either from the HEAD request or by downloading a     sha1    file    If this checksum matches another file already downloaded  from any repository   then Gradle will simply copy the file in the cache   rather than re-downloading  In this case you   ll get the message      Found locally available resource with matching checksum                  Using delete  When you delete caches   rm -rf  HOME  gradle caches    You just clean all the cached jars and sha1 sums and Gradle is in situation where there is no artifacts on your machine and has to download everything  Yes it will work 100  for the first time  but when another SNAPSHOT is released and it is part of your dependency tree you will be faced again in front of the choice to refresh or to purge the caches

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For Windows   in order to make gradle re-download specific dependencies   delete the dependencies you want to re-download from the directory below  C  Users  USERNAME   gradle caches modules-2 files-2 1   delete all metadata directories at the path  C  Users  USERNAME   gradle caches modules-2 metadata-    run gradle build  or gradlew build if using gradle wrapper  in the project s root directory    note  the numbers in the file paths above might be different for you

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Seems change is changed to isChange for gradle version 6 3  kotlin version 1 3 70  Groovy 2 5 10 The working configuration is implementation  quot com sample commons 1 0 0-SNAPSHOT quot             isChanging   true        Also  run this command to fetch the latest   gradlew assemble  --refresh-dependencies

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To refresh cached  release  version the only option is to clear local cache   rm -rf  HOME  gradle caches    To refresh cached  snapshot  version you can     gradlew build --refresh-dependencies

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For the majority of cases  just simply re-building the project should do the trick  Sometimes you have to run   gradlew build --refresh-dependencies as several answers have already mentioned  takes a long time  depending on how much dependencies you have   How ever  sometimes none of those will work  the dependency just won t get updated  Then  you can do this    Remove dependency from your gradle file Run   debug your project and wait for it to fail  with NonExistingClass reason   Hit  build project  and wait for it to finish successfully Run   debug once again   This is ridiculous and seems like madness  but I actually do use this procedure daily  simply because the dependency I need can be updated dozens of times and none of adequate solutions would have any effect

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Generally  you can refresh dependencies in your cache with the command line option --refresh-dependencies  You can also delete the cached files under    gradle caches  With the next build Gradle would attempt to download them again   What is your specific use case  Do you use dynamic dependency versions or SNAPSHOT versions     On Unix systems  you can delete all the existing artifacts  artifacts and metadata  Gradle has downloaded using   rm -rf  HOME  gradle caches

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I think gradle 2 14 1 fixes the issue  The accepted answer is correct  but there is a bug in gradle with    refresh-dependencies  2 14 1 fixes that   See https   discuss gradle org t refresh-dependencies-should-use-cachechangingmodulesfor-0s 556

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For MAC     gradlew build --refresh-dependencies  For Windows   gradlew build --refresh-dependencies  Can also try gradlew assembleDevelopmentDebug --refresh-dependencies

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Instead of removing your entire gradle cache  like some answers here are suggesting  you can delete the cache for a specific group or artifact id  I added the following function to my  bash profile   deleteGradleCache       local id  1   if   -z   id     then     echo  Please provide an group or artifact id to delete      return 1   fi   find    gradle caches  -type d -name   id  -prune -exec rm -rf         -print     Usage     deleteGradleCache com android support   Then  on the next build or if you resync  gradle will re-download dependencies

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For Android Studio 3 4 1  Simply open the gradle tab  can be located on the right  and right-click on the parent in the list  should be called  Android    then select  Refresh dependencies    This should resolve your issue

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In my case none of the above worked  what I did was     In build gradle  commenting the dependencies related to the unresolved imports I had Clicking  Sync Now  Uncommenting what I just commented Clicking  Sync Now  again   Then my imports were properly resolved again

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For those who are wondering where to run gradle commands    Open Android Studio Click on Terminal You will find it in the base of Android Studio  The command tool will open Type your command gradlew build --refresh-dependencies

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You can do it like this  https   marschall github io 2017 04 17 disabling-gradle-cache html   To quote from Disabling the Gradle Build Cache     The Gradle build cache may be a great thing when you   re regularly building  large projects with Gradle  However when only occasionally building open source  projects it can quickly become large       To disable the Gradle build cache add the following line to    gradle gradle properties  org gradle caching false       You can clean the existing cache with  rm -rf  HOME  gradle caches  rm -rf  HOME  gradle wrapper

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Only a manual deletion of the specific dependency in the cache folder works    an artifactory built by a colleague in enterprise repo

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Mb I m too late however my solution is for single repository  I think deleting    gradle   is overkill   The problmem I ve bumped into was that I was deleting directory where sources were and gradle was getting another version not from nexus   To avoid that I run the next      gradle  find   -type d -name  group plugins awssdk    caches modules-2 files-2 1 group plugins awssdk   caches modules-2 metadata-2 23 descriptors group plugins awssdk     gradle  rm -r   caches modules-2 files-2 1 group plugins awssdk     caches modules-2 metadata-2 23 descriptors group plugins awssdk   After that gradle is dragging files from nexus

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None of the solutions above worked for me   If you use IntelliJ  what resolved it for me was simply refreshing all Gradle projects

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delete this directory   C  Users  username   gradle

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You need to redownload it  so you can either manually download and replace the corrupted file and again sync your project   Go to this location C  users username  gradle wrapper dist gradle3 3-all 55gk2rcmfc6p2dg9u9ohc3hw9 gradle-3 3-all zip Here delete gradle3 3allzip and replace it by downloading again from this site https   services gradle org distributions  Find the same file and download and paste it to that location Then sync your project  Hope it works for you too

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