How to use/start the gradle daemon on a Mac?

Question

Every time I execute a gradle command on Mac I get a message saying:

"This build could be faster, please consider using the Gradle Daemon: https://docs.gradle.org/2.10/userguide/gradle_daemon.html"

I've created a gradle.properties file with the line org.gradle.daemon=true as mentioned in the web page given in the message. However no matter what I do, I still continue to get that message.

If I execute the command

gradle --daemon

then it executes successfully, but still next time I do something I get that message about it could be faster and builds are just as slow as before I started the daemon.

My installation directory is no /Users/username as in gradle_daemon.html as I'm falling a Udacity course (https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-ud867/) and they recommend installing it to /usr/local/gradle

How can I actually get the gradle dameon to work and get rid of that could be faster message?

(Using Gradle version 2.10)

Answer 1

just put

org.gradle.daemon=true

in the ~/.gradle/gradle.properties file. Then each build on your machine will use the gradle wrapper and the message dissapears.

Answer 2

The page doesn't say anywhere that gradle must be installed in /Users/username. It says that this directory is your home directory, and that's where the .gradle/gradle.properties file must be located. The place where gradle is installed is irrelevant.