Gradle distributionUrl: bin vs all

Whenever you create a project in Android Studio, a gradle-wrapper.properties file is created in the folder gradle/wrapper. It holds different information about the Gradle configuration of your project. Your distributionUrl should be targeting a URL with a suffix -all.zip. It’s bigger than what you need.

By default, it holds the Gradle binaries as well as the samples and docs. In the current version (3.6.2), it’s 133.16 MB. When you don’t look into the docs or samples within your IDE, you can avoid downloading them by getting only the binaries (89.54MB). To do so, replace the -all.zip suffix by -bin.zip.

Your final gradle-wrapper.properties should look like that:

distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.2-bin.zip

Android Studio notifies you whenever a new version is available, and if you’re curious, you can check the changelog here.

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