Installing gradle plugin in Eclipse IDE

[ntzrmtthihu777]

Seems many folks are having issue with this, so I figured I'd make a thread explaining how.

 

To install the Gradle Plugin, go to Help>Install new software, then add a new source url as follows:

Gradle - http://dist.springsource.com/release/TOOLS/gradle

 

Once it updates software available, look under Extensions / Gradle Integration for Gradle IDE, install this and nothing more. This will add the ability to import gradle projects.

 

It must be stated, that there is very little benefit in doing this and running gradle{w{,.bat}} eclipse will create the needed files to import as a normal eclipse project, making installing the gradle plugin an unneeded afterthought.

[luacs1998]

It allows you to build within Eclipse.

[ntzrmtthihu777]

Ah true that. I personally don't have use for it