how do I control where gradle/gradlew files and folders are located

Question

In a new project - in which I am using gradle/gradlew - I want to set the location of various gradle/gradlew files and folders to something different than the default behaviour.

I am talking about:

• folder gradle, with sub folder wrapper (holding gradle-wrapper.jar and gradle-wrapper.properties
• folder build, with sub folders 'classes', 'dependency-cache', 'libs', 'resources' having all kinds of xml files from individual components, and 'tmp' having sub folders 'compileJava' and 'jar'.

But how and where do I configure this?

Answer 1

You can change the location of the Wrapper and properties file by setting up a task of type Wrapper. For example:

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    jarFile = file('mywrapper/wrapper.jar')
}

Running gradle wrapper will generate the following files:

.
├── build.gradle
├── gradlew
├── gradlew.bat
└── mywrapper
    ├── wrapper.jar
    └── wrapper.properties

The default build output directory can be changed via the method Project.setBuildDir(Object). For example:

buildDir = file('target')