How to use/start the gradle daemon on a Mac?

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Gruntcakes picture Gruntcakes · Jan 11, 2016 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

Every time I execute a gradle command on Mac I get a message saying:

"This build could be faster, please consider using the Gradle Daemon: https://docs.gradle.org/2.10/userguide/gradle_daemon.html"

I've created a gradle.properties file with the line org.gradle.daemon=true as mentioned in the web page given in the message. However no matter what I do, I still continue to get that message.

If I execute the command 

gradle --daemon

then it executes successfully, but still next time I do something I get that message about it could be faster and builds are just as slow as before I started the daemon.

My installation directory is no /Users/username as in gradle_daemon.html as I'm falling a Udacity course (https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-ud867/) and they recommend installing it to /usr/local/gradle

How can I actually get the gradle dameon to work and get rid of that could be faster message?

(Using Gradle version 2.10)

Answer

Rene Groeschke picture Rene Groeschke · Jan 12, 2016

just put 

org.gradle.daemon=true

in the ~/.gradle/gradle.properties file. Then each build on your machine will use the gradle wrapper and the message dissapears.

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