How to change the version of the 'default gradle wrapper' in IntelliJ IDEA?

Question

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 :( )

Answer 1

The easiest way is to execute the following command from the command line (see Upgrading the Gradle Wrapper in documentation):

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 5.5 

Moreover, you can use --distribution-type parameter with either bin or all value to choose a distribution type. Use all distribution type to avoid a hint from IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio that will offer you to download Gradle with sources:

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 5.5 --distribution-type all 

Or you can create a custom wrapper task

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {     gradleVersion = '5.5' } 

and run ./gradlew wrapper.

Answer 2

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