Jenkins android build failing with the message: FATAL: The Gradle wrapper has not been found in these directories

Question

When I try building android project, build fails with the following msg:

Started by user admin
Building in workspace /Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/workspace/stable-dev
[Gradle] - Launching build.

FATAL: The Gradle wrapper has not been found in these directories:   
/Users/admin/Downloads/android_stable_dev, 
/Users/Shared/Jenkins/Home/workspace/stable-dev

Build step 'Invoke Gradle script' marked build as failure
Finished: FAILURE

Configurations I used:

1. Use Gradle Wrapper
2. build File: /Users/admin/Downloads/android_stable_dev/build.gradle

I tried filling /Users/admin/Downloads/android_stable_dev/gradlew, /Users/admin/Downloads/android_stable_dev/gradle/wrapper/, /Users/admin/Downloads/android_stable_dev/gradle/ etc. in the Wrapper location field in the configuration. Still didn't work (All those files are there).

I'm using jenkins-2.47.pkg

Answer 1

You only have to provide the location of parent folder of the gradlew and build.gradle and not the files. So in your case

Root Build script: /Users/admin/Downloads/android_stable_dev
Wrapper Location: /Users/admin/Downloads/android_stable_dev

It is mentioned in the help (click ? next to Wrapper Location and Root Build script options) but I too found this out after carefully reading it multiple times

Answer 2

If you are not getting the correct file path in Jenkins of your gradle wrapper, you can set this using cd command and run the specific task like below.

cd ${WORKSPACE}/Android/YOUR_CODE_FOLDER
./gradlew clean assembleDebug