'gradlew' is not recognized as an internal or external command error in Android Studio terminal

Question

Getting error - 'gradlew' is not recognized as an internal or external command. operable program or batch file. inside Android Studio terminal.

Can anyone please tell why it's not recognizing gradlew

Answer 1

1. gradlew command is available in your project directory. If you are trying to run this command from somewhere else it will throw error.
2. Also gradlew command package is automatically generated by Android studio when you create a new project. It will also prompt you to generate new gradle wrapper when you open the project.
3. you have to use ./gradlew instead of gradlew , if you are using Mac or Linux

Answer 2

It's under the Android folder, so you have to do cd Android first from your project root folder, then :

PS C:\code\my_app\android> ./gradlew signingReport

Answer 3

Assume that you app's name is video_compresser, so when you open terminal on Windows PC(because I am trying this on Windows) it shows the prompt like this.

C:\Users\Nuwan\StudioProjects\video_compresser>

If you run gradlew from here you will get the below message

'gradlew' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

so you have to go to android directory by typing cd android command from terminal.

then the prompt should be like this,

C:\Users\Nuwan\StudioProjects\video_compresser\android>

then type gradlew followed by other commands you need and the error should be gone.

Answer 4

Try using, ./gradle clean ./gradle assembleRelease worked for me.