Running gradle as daemon (Mac)

How to know if gradle daemon is running or not ? Run "gradle --stop" on commandline. It should spit out that gradle is not running as daemon.

$ gradle --stop

No Gradle daemons are running.

Follow these steps to make gradle run as daemon:

Navigate to /Users/<your user name>/.gradle

cd /Users/<your user name>/.gradle

Create a file name gradle.properties

vi gradle.properties

Add a line in "gradle.properties"

org.gradle.daemon=true

Done !

Note: Execute any gradle task to kick start daemon.

Verify

$ gradle --stop

Stopping daemon(s).

Gradle daemon stopped.