Best way to add Gradle support to IntelliJ Project

Another way, simpler.

Add your

build.gradle

file to the root of your project. Close the project. Manually remove "*.iml" file and/or ".idea" directory. Then choose "Import Project...", navigate to your project directory, select the build.gradle file and click OK.

There is no need to remove any .iml files. Follow this:

• close the project
• File -> Open... and choose your newly created build.gradle
• IntelliJ will ask you whether you want:
  • Open Existing Project
  • Delete Existing Project and Import
• Choose the second option and you are done

In IntelliJ 2017.2.4 I just closed the project and reopened it and I got a dialog asking me if I wanted to link with build.gradle which opened up the import dialog for Gradle projects.

No need to delete any files or add the idea plugin to build.gradle.

Add:

build.gradle 

in your root project folder, and use plugin for example:

apply plugin: 'idea'
//and standard one
apply plugin: 'java'

and with this fire from command line:

gradle cleanIdea 

and after that:

gradle idea

After that everything should work