[intellij-idea] How to change the version of the 'default gradle wrapper' in IntelliJ IDEA?

I want to use Gradle 1.10 instead of 1.9. I cannot seem to find where to change this.

If I put this:

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '1.10'
}

in my build.gradle and rebuild, it is built with Gradle 1.9 again (so nothing actually happens).

These seem to be all the settings: (and IntelliJ's help section about Gradle doesn't help at all :( )

First, let gradle set the correct distribution Url

cd projectDirectory
./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 2.3.0

Then - might not be needed but that's what I did - edit the project's build.gradle to match the version

    dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.0'

    // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
    // in the individual module build.gradle files
}

Finally, delete the folders .gradle and gradle and the files gradlew and gradlew.bat. (Original Answer)

Now, rebuild the project.

_{As the other answers did not suffice for me and the comment pointing out these additional steps is easy to overlook, here as a separate answer}

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=5.4.1 --distribution-type=bin

https://gradle.org/install/#manually

To check:

 ./gradlew tasks

To input it without command:

go to-> gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties distribution url and change it to the updated zip version

output:

 ./gradlew tasks
Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-bin.zip
...................................................................................

Welcome to Gradle 5.4.1!

Here are the highlights of this release:
 - Run builds with JDK12
 - New API for Incremental Tasks
 - Updates to native projects, including Swift 5 support

For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/5.4.1/release-notes.html

Starting a Gradle Daemon (subsequent builds will be faster)

> Starting Daemon 

I just wanted to chime in that I hit this after updating Android Studio components.

What worked for me was to open gradle-wrapper.properties and update the gradle version used. As of now for my projects the line reads:

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.5-all.zip

In build.gradle add wrapper { gradleVersion = '6.0' }

The 'wrapper' task in gradle is called if gradlew command is used, if you use gradle command to build the wrapper task is not called. So, there are two ways you can change your gradle version.

1. Use 'gradlew build' command, this command will call the wrapper task that you mentioned. That task will change the 'distributionUrl' parameter in gradle-wrapper.properties file and it will automatically download the gradle version you want. Example distributionUrl in the file for version 4.2. distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.2-bin.zip

2. If you are not using gradle wrapper simply download the version of the gradle you want and set environment variable path and also show it to IDEA.

P.S. for more information about gradle wrapper I suggest you to read: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/gradle_wrapper.html

I was facing same issue for changing default gradle version from 5.0 to 4.7, Below are the steps to change default gradle version in intellij
1) Change gradle version in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties in this property distributionUrl

2) Hit refresh button in gradle projects menu so that it will start downloading new gradle zip version

Open the file gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties in your project. Change the version in the distributionUrl to use the version you want to use, e.g.,

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.10-all.zip