Using intelliJ with gradle OFFLINE for android development

Question

I'm going to be going away and will have long periods without internet connection. I currently use IntelliJ with the android SDK to develop. When I try to create a project with no internet connection, it gives me a gradle http error.

I did some searching and downloaded the 1.8 zip from groovy's website, but can't get intellij to use it (zipped or unzipped).

I haven't been able to find a good guide to making this work so I'm seeing if anybody here can point me to one. Thanks a ton in advance

Answer 1

Android Studio 0.4 supports offline mode for Gradle.

For Groovy question:

Right click on module > Add Framework Support...

Click on Create...

Choose Groovy distribution location.

Or create a new Groovy module:

If you don't have Groovy module listed, make sure you have Groovy plugin enabled.

Answer 2

for the offline-part of the quiestion: AndroidStudio 0.5.2 does not have the checkbox described by @kukido but an inputfield Gradle Commandline-optionions where you can enter "--offline".

Alternatively you can ad this to the settings.gradle file

 // else build may fail because of missing internetconnection
 startParameter.offline=true