Tip: How to reuse Gradle daemon between Android Studio and terminal
When I run first gradle command from terminal, it starts new daemon instead of reusing already existed one.
Starting a Gradle Daemon, 1 incompatible and 0 stopped Daemons could not be reused, use — status for details
That’s strange, because Android Studio already started one daemon and I want to reuse it.
Why I want to reuse existing daemon
- New daemon is not “warmed up” and cannot reuse anything from existed daemon
- It consumes additional memory
Why daemon from Android Studio is not compatible for terminal
There are two main reason to be incompatible — Gradle version and Java version. Gradle version should be the same, but JDK versions are different. By default, Android Studio is using embedded JDK, which most likely has a different version from Java installed on your machine.
How to make daemon compatible
In Android Studio go to Project Structure -> SDK location. Uncheck “Use embedded JDK” and specify for JDK.
On Mac you can easily find JDK location by executing
echo $(/usr/libexec/java_home)
How to see how many daemons are running
Execute gradle --status
PS. This applies to Gradle wrapper and locally installed Gradle. I recommend to use local Gradle distribution. See my previous Tip to find out why.
