In 2022, can't get examples to work in about gradle-in-action-source HOT 3 CLOSED

You can use a newer version than Gradle 1.7 and I am sure the IDE would still be happy with it. In addition, Gradle now also requires you to add a settings.gradle file for each project. The way you opened the "project" in IntelliJ isn't correct as you are not dealing with a large multi-project build. You need to open projects individually e.g. chapter02/helloworld-task-doLast.

Side note: For learning purposes, you don't really need an IDE. You may just open a project from an editor e.g. VsCode. You can always execute the build from the command line.

Bottom line: The book would need a major overhaul, however, Manning Publications decided not to work on a second edition.

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Thanks! You are using Android Studio and not IntelliJ IDEA which seems to enforce a specific Gradle version. Try this with IntelliJ IDEA community edition.

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Cool, that gets me closer, but rather than installing Community Edition, it turns out that you can disable IntelliJ's Android Studio plugin to achieve the same thing...

..., but then I get this:

Unsupported Gradle.
The project uses Gradle 1.7 which is incompatible with IntelliJ IDEA 2021.3.
Possible solution:

• Upgrade Gradle wrapper to 3.0 version and re-import the project

So it seems IntelliJ integration is impossible.

As a workaround, should I just run the gradle commands from IntelliJ's terminal? For example, using sdk-man, I can select gradle 1.7, and cd to the project's directory.

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