How can I find out if the gradle daemon is running?

Question

I am developing Android applications with Android Studio 2.0. I read in a lot of blogposts that enabling the gradle daemon should increase the build performance drastically.

My problem is, that I do not know how to check if the daemon is running. I added the line

org.gradle.daemon=true

to the gradle.properties file but Android Studio shows me a unused property warning, so I am not sure if the daemon is actually running. How can I find out if the daemon is actually running?

Answer 1

Android Studio (based on IntelliJ) always uses the Gradle Daemon internally. See about

• IntelliJ/Gradle integration

You only need to enable the Daemon for builds you invoke on the command-line and here's how to do that:

echo "org.gradle.daemon=true" >> $PROJECT_DIR/gradle.properties

Answer 2

Long time passed since the question is asked, but I see no exact answer to the question:

How can I find out if the gradle daemon is running?

Running in terminal gradle --status will give the status of the gradle. You'll see "No Gradle daemons are running" message if there's no gradle daemon running.

Otherwise, you'll see status of the daemon.