Best way to add Gradle support to IntelliJ Project

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I have looked around quite a bit and haven t found the best solution to convert an existing IntelliJ project to Gradle  I work in a team environment and we currently share the  ipr file as we have a few build configurations that we track  We will be getting rid of those in favor of Gradle eventually but I can t screw things up too much until the Gradle conversion is done   Also  our Java source files are located in the root of the src directory instead of src main java as is standard   Is there a way I can add Gradle to my project that won t make me delete and recreate my IntelliJ project and won t screw everyone else up when they do a Git pull

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Add   build gradle    in your root project folder  and use plugin for example   apply plugin   idea    and standard one apply plugin   java    and with this fire from command line   gradle cleanIdea    and after that   gradle idea   After that everything should work

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Another way  simpler   Add your   build gradle   file to the root of your project  Close the project  Manually remove   iml file  Then choose  Import Project      navigate to your project directory  select the build gradle file and click OK

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To add to other answers  For me it was helpful to delete  mvn directory and then add build gradle  New versions of IntelliJ will then automatically notice that you use Gradle

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Just as a future reference  if you already have a Maven project all you need to do is doing a gradle init in your project directory which will generates build gradle and other dependencies  then do a gradle build in the same directory

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There is no need to remove any  iml files  Follow this    close the project File - gt  Open    and choose your newly created build gradle IntelliJ will ask you whether you want    Open Existing Project Delete Existing Project and Import  Choose the second option and you are done

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In IntelliJ 2017 2 4 I just closed the project and reopened it and I got a dialog asking me if I wanted to link with build gradle which opened up the import dialog for Gradle projects   No need to delete any files or add the idea plugin to build gradle

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Add build gradle in your project s root directory  Then just File -  Invalidate Caches   Restart   Here is a basic build gradle for Java projects   plugins       id  java     sourceCompatibility    1 8  targetCompatibility    1 8  version    1 2 1

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I m using Version 12 of IntelliJ   I solved a similar problem by creating an entirely new project and  Checking out from Version Control  Merging the two projects later was fairly easy

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