How to set gradle properties for all my android projects?

Question

How to set gradle properties for all my android projects? I have diffrent android projetcs but whenever i change my gradel.properties file in project folder it only affect that projects. And i cannot find the gradle.properties in .gradle folder in root directory. How do i set common properties for all projects so i dont need to change everytime.

Answer 1

Gradle supports system-wide properties in a gradle.properties file in the GRADLE_USER_HOME directory, which defaults to a folder called .gradle in your home directory, e.g. C:\Users\<user>\.gradle on Windows.

These system specific properties may override project specific properties, so they can be used to specify usernames and passwords only for your local machine.

This global gradle.properties may not exist by default, but even if not, you can create one and it will be used and the properties will be available in your build script.

If your global settings require more logic than just plain properties, you can use initialization scripts, which can be placed in the same location (or the init.d subdirectory).

Answer 2

For MacOS users:

1. Open terminal and enter cd ~/.gradle
2. Do a ls to check whether gradle.properties already exists or not
3. If it doesn't exist, create one: vi gradle.properties.
4. If it exists, just modify the configs you want to modify and save it.

Answer 3

Here is the answer

This global gradle.properties may not exist by default, but even if not, you can create one and it will be used and the properties will be available in your build script.

Create one in C:\Users\user-name.gradle and name it gradle.properties without any extensions.

Answer 4

Documentation :

Project properties are inherited from parent to child projects.

Root Project

ext{
    supportLibVersion = '25.3.1'

    //supportLib
    supportLib = "com.android.support:support-v4:$supportLibVersion"
}

Child Projects:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])

    //supportLib
    compile rootProject.ext.supportLib
}