How to use Gradle Wrapper

What is Gradle wrapper?

The Gradle wrapper allows you to run a Gradle task without requiring that Gradle is installed on your system.

1. Create a Gradle Wrapper
1.1 Declares a wrapper task.

build.gradle
task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '2.10' //we want gradle 2.10 to run this project
}
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1.2 Run the wrapper task with gradle wrapper

$ gradle wrapper

:wrapper

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
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1.3 The following files will be created, remember to add these files and folders to your version control system (e.g GitHub or Bitbucket).

|-gradle
  |--- wrapper
      |--- gradle-wrapper.jar
      |--- gradle-wrapper.properties
|-gradlew
|-gradlew.bat