Installation

The easiest way to install Gradle is to use Brew. First, install Brew.

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Then we can install Gradle.

brew install gradle

When we decide to update to latest version of Gradle, execute the following command.

brew upgrade gradle

When working with Gradle project, we might want to freeze version of Gradle. Because other versions of Gradle might break the build. Put this into a build.gradle file.

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) { // when 'gradle wrapper' is executed, it creates needed wrapper files
    gradleVersion = '4.2.1'
}

Then we run gradle wrapper in console and it generates gradle wrapper that ensure the project is build using the specified version.