Purpose

The purpose of this page is to show current state of IDEA-Gradle integration while it's in active development. It's intended to be removed when the integration is released.

News

The latest news from the gradle integration development can be found here

Tasks

Status	Meaning
	Not defined whether this will be implemented
	Will not be implemented
	Implemented
	In progress
	Planned but not implemented yet

High-level

Feel free to check details of the mentioned IntelliJ IDEA tickets. They are organised in hierarchical manner, i.e. high-level tickets have sub-tickets.

Status	Task	Description
	Import from Gradle - IDEA-75721	Input: 'build.gradle', output: ready to use IJ project
	Sync project changes - IDEA-76142	Show the difference between Gradle and IntelliJ IDEA projects, allow to manage them
	Provide convenient view to the gradle functionality	Very similar to the gralde GUI plugin
	Diagram support	Visual representation of dependencies, tasks?
	Auto-completion	Need to check whether we need highlighting over than for usual groovy files
	Highlighting	Need to check whether we need highlighting over than for usual groovy files
	Detect gradle project structure change and offer to apply the changes to IJ
	Provide quick documentation for the gradle DSL/API within IntelliJ IDEA
	Sync IJ changes with 'build.gradle'	Modify gradle build files within changes made in IJ project/module structure

How-to

How to get the most up-to-date assembled gradle plugin

Login to the public Jetbrains Teamcity - http://teamcity.jetbrains.com
Navigate to the 'Intellij IDEA CE -> Community Dist -> Artifacts':
Download the target distribution and use it. The distributions are re-built every 24 hours;

How to compile IntelliJ IDEA from sources and test the latest Gradle plugin.

Download and install the latest released IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition;
Checkout the latest IntelliJ IDEA sources;
Open that project (named 'community') from the IntelliJ IDEA;
Build the project (make sure to add 'tools.jar' to the classpath of the project jdk;
Start 'IDEA' run configuration;
Check 'gradle' plugin facilities with IntelliJ IDEA built from the sources;

How to work with the latest version of ToolingApi.

This page: http://gradle.org/nightly/ hosts the latest gradle stuff (docs, binaries, sources, distros). It is built overnight and sometimes even more often. Here're the alternative ways of working with latest tooling-api:

Download the 'all' distribution from http://gradle.org/nightly.
- Install downloaded distro
- Go to the samples/toolingApi/idea
- run gradle idea
- Open created *.ipr in Idea
- Play with the code, browse the interfaces of the ToolingApi

Alternative:
- Configure toolingApi version that you use to the version that is shown at http://gradle.org/latest. Rebuild.

Gradle integration