Where to give the path of Gradle

tomy

You say if I rely on the current settings, it will be enough (and for some reason, if it's needed, it will install the required stuff itself)?

When I asked to run my own Windows app for Android, guys recommended that I use the Docs. There it was written I should install Gradle.

SGaist

I concur with @jsulm, last time I used gradle for my project, the first thing it did was to download everything that it needed to continue the work.

tomy

OK, I say if I leave the settings as they are (like below), it's enough, yes??
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jsulm

@tomy Yes should be fine, just try.
I asked which doc you're following because maybe it should be fixed (to not to ask users to install their own Gradle).

tomy

@jsulm
I think it was this.

jsulm

@tomy To be honest I do not see where it says you have to install Gradle by yourself.

tomy

It says:

Requirements

To use Qt Creator to develop Qt applications for Android, you need the following:

Java SE Development Kit (JDK) version 6, or later
A build tool for building application packages for Android devices:
Apache Ant 1.8.0, or later
Gradle
...

And when the user clicks on Gradle, it takes them to this page:
https://gradle.org/
Where they are presumably asked to install Gradle

Anyway, the problem is seemingly solved for me and if you like make a suggestions for the holders of Docs please to modify this.

jsulm

@tomy Yes, it says Gradle is needed, but if you read further then it says that it is integrated:
"On Android, applications are distributed in specially structured type of ZIP packages called APK. You can use either Ant or Gradle to build APKs. Using Gradle has the following benefits:

It is 25 to 50 percent faster than Ant when rebuilding packages.
It is integrated with Android Studio."

The doc does not say you have to install it.
If you read the documentation you should not immediately install all requirements listed. Instead you should read further there all set-up steps are explained.

J.Hilk

@jsulm said in Where to give the path of Gradle:

The doc does not say you have to install it.
If you read the documentation you should not immediately install all requirements listed. Instead you should read further there all set-up steps are explained.

that is right,

warnings come after the instructions

:-)

jsulm

@J.Hilk Actually list of requirements is not installation instruction. Installation instructions come afterwards :-)

tomy

They could have added a simple line like:
If you install Android Studio and want to use Gradle instead of Ant, "you do not need to install it manually" because the Android Studio contains it itself.

That line should have been added at, of course, the beginning not the end.

This is my opinion.

Nick Bennett

It looks like that doc page was updated. A requirement line encompasses all the Android requirements, and it states that QC can download these for you.