How to force Android Studio to use relative paths?

Question

Every project created in Android Studio 1.0.2 contains several files that reference the project's own absolute path. I can't even move my own project directory if I want to, let alone share the project with other developers.

Excluding files in app/build, these are the files containing absolute paths:

.idea/workspace.xml
.idea/modules.xml
.idea/libraries/support_v4_21_0_3.xml
.idea/libraries/appcompat_v7_21_0_3.xml
.idea/gradle.xml
.gradle/2.2.1/taskArtifacts/taskArtifacts.bin
.gradle/2.2.1/taskArtifacts/fileSnapshots.bin
app/app.iml

How do I force Android Studio to use relative paths for everything?

Edit: By experimenting with vanilla IDEA, I've narrowed down the origin of these absolute paths to a specific type of module, which Android Studio apparently always uses without offering you a choice. But I'm still no closer to understanding how to eradicate them.

In IDEA 14.0.2, if you create an empty project or an Android project with an "Application Module", the project does not contain any absolute paths. If you create a project with a "Gradle: Android Module", then it contains absolute paths in the same files as an Android Studio project.

Edit #2: Created IDEA-134587

Answer 1

In general, don't consider any of the .iml files or the contents of the .idea folder to be part of the project, and don't share any of those files, don't check them into source control, and don't move them with the project. Think of them as cache files.

The Gradle files are the source of truth, so if you're having troubles with absolute paths, close the project, delete the non-shareable files, and re-import it from the Gradle build scripts.