How can I stop Gradle task execution in Android Studio?

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Is there a legitimate way of Gradle task(s) execution stopping in Android Studio?

I'm having the same issue as of May 2016. And then it goes OutOfMemoryException, even when the heap space is set to "4g" — ticofab, May 16 '16 at 08:38

score 174 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 30 '23 at 13:19

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You can call ./gradlew --stop in a terminal and it will kill all Gradle processes.

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answered Mar 08 '16 at 21:37

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Error: Could not find or load main class org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain – kartikag01 Sep 05 '16 at 18:23
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Works well to force stop any gradle process, no matter which step is currently running. It's a shame that (as of Android Studio 2.2.2) the "stop" button in AS is not able to achieve the same thing... – Sébastien Nov 07 '16 at 15:20
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i got a permission denied, even when running with root, on then mac. – MiguelSlv Jan 18 '17 at 18:27
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that does not help in case the gradle is hanging up, only killing the process of Android Studio and then restarting it helps – Alexey Timokhin Aug 11 '17 at 16:55

score 48 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '14 at 16:47

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No, Gradle (as of this writing, v1.10) has a limitation that you can't cancel tasks through its tooling API, which is what Android Studio uses to communicate with its daemon. You can track the progress of this at https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=59464 . It's also preventing progress on something else we'd like to be able to do, https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=59965

In the meantime about all you can do is to go through your OS and kill the Gradle processes manually, which is a little painful and messy. It's possible that it could leave your build in some intermediate bad state which would mess up future incremental compiles, but I don't know for sure.

answered Jan 17 '14 at 16:47

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In that case, they should not give a Cancel button while executing gradle tasks. – Tushar Kathuria Oct 15 '15 at 17:17
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Even if the issue was marked as "released" on Dec 2014, as of Nov 2015 I still have this very same bug. OMG, Android Studio is just horrendous. – Eduardo Nov 08 '15 at 01:38
As mentioned below, the --stop flag now works for this. – Gyurme May 23 '16 at 04:18
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It's June 2016 and the Cancel still doesn't work as expected. In the thread mentioned in this answer they say they've implemented fixes for that, but I don't see a big difference in practice... – Stan Jun 13 '16 at 12:02
*kill the Gradle processes*? What's the name of a Gradle process? – zwcloud Aug 21 '18 at 07:48
2021 and still not working as expected – shervinox Oct 01 '21 at 15:44

score 36 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 05 '15 at 20:57

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With Android Studio 1.3.2 a kill button appears when the gradle is building on the very bottom of the IDE screen.

It doesn't seem to do anything, but at least there's something to push. Wheee! :D

answered Oct 05 '15 at 20:57

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android studio overall does a lot of bullshit that cant be turned off.. – Siddharth Jul 01 '16 at 07:12
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Now the "stopping" process is not stopping – Anoop saju Dec 03 '16 at 04:11
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That's a fake button, it doesn't do anything. – Vahid Amiri Jan 14 '17 at 17:39
For me both 'gradlew --stop' command in the terminal and kill button in the bottom as shown by @Scott Biggs, worked.Thank you. Note: I didn't use './' before 'gradlew --stop' command. – Shashi Shiva L Jul 21 '19 at 04:40

scottyab · Answer 4 · 2014-09-02T10:03:35.717

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Quitting Android studio is another way it'll kill the gradle daemon or if it's hung deploying to Android device unplugging the device can halt the process (neither are ideal solutions)

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answered Sep 01 '14 at 11:47

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Well my AS will stop functioning on quit when a Gradle task is running. It still seems responsive but it does not update the window, – Madmenyo Dec 25 '15 at 13:55

score 7 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 30 '23 at 13:05

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Thanks to Rami Kuret and Flavio Faria.

You can call .\gradlew --stop in a Terminal and it will kill all Gradle processes in Android Studio for Windows OS.

You can find the terminal at the left bottom of your Android Studio for Windows.

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answered Aug 10 '16 at 10:27

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score 5 · Answer 6 · edited Jun 30 '23 at 13:06

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This is just something quick I found out. If you want to end the process, you can also:

Go into Task Manager by right-clicking the taskbar then going to "Task Manager" or simply by Ctrl + Shift + Esc
Then ending the Java process that's running.

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answered Sep 16 '16 at 09:16

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score 5 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 27 '17 at 16:32

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When every other method fails just use:

ps -A | grep gradle | awk '{ print $1; }' | xargs kill -9

to get the list of every process with a 'gradle' keywork and kill it forcefully.

answered Feb 27 '17 at 16:32

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score 4 · Answer 8 · answered Jun 04 '15 at 09:06

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I know this is an old question but now with Android Studio 1.2, you can cancel current gradle task by quitting Android Studio, it'll open a Confirm exit dilog says there's a background running task, choose Exit, then there will be another dialog to cancel background task, choose Yes and gradle task will be canceled without quitting studio.

Remember to clean project before run other build task, or something might be messed up.

(I'm on Mac OS X)

answered Jun 04 '15 at 09:06

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On Windows it's similar. Quit Android Studio when gradle is running, answer "Exit", then answer "No". After that a gradle will stop compiling. – CoolMind Oct 15 '15 at 11:56
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@CoolMind lately, if I do so, Android Studio freeze and show a black screen. I even have to reboot Windows for it to compile again... – Dan Chaltiel Dec 06 '15 at 13:05
@DanChaltiel, maybe, it happens sometimes (at my computer Android Studio hasn't freezed). Did you clean and rebuild a project after stopping gradle? Or Android Studio doesn't allow this? Sorry, if this bug remains. – CoolMind Dec 06 '15 at 14:36
@CoolMind Thx for replying, I even made a [question about this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34118223/android-studio-1-5-1-cannot-build). – Dan Chaltiel Dec 06 '15 at 15:05
@DanChaltiel hm, it looks like Stankovitch recommended there to install 2 Android Studios. Sorry for a question, may a problem be in Java? – CoolMind Dec 06 '15 at 15:35
@CoolMind nop, everything was fine a moment ago. I'm trying some ORM libraries though, but sometimes they build. The new version of Android studio didn't resolve anything. – Dan Chaltiel Dec 06 '15 at 16:31

score 3 · Answer 9 · edited Jun 30 '23 at 13:13

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Just execute .\gradlew --stop in the terminal which is located on the bottom of the Android Studio. After it kills the Gradle process, clean the project and rerun the project.

See the image for more information:

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answered Apr 25 '17 at 10:03

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score 1 · Answer 10 · edited Jun 30 '23 at 13:10

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There is an Android Studio plugin for that: GradleStop

It will just add a "gradle stop" command and menu item which will call ./gradlew --stop.

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answered Nov 24 '16 at 14:19

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Mar 08 '16 at 11:24

Not a "legitimate" way but this is what i do.

Click on Gradle Sync while your build process is ongoing.
Android Studio will warn you with something like "Continue with Project Closing?". Click yes.

The build process will be cancelled and the gradle Sync operation will begin which is relatively quicker (as compared to waiting for the whole build process to complete, as i have a project with MANY library modules)

score 0 · Answer 12 · edited Jun 30 '23 at 13:02

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The way I solved this was:

Go to your project → graddle-wrapper.properties (Gradle version)

Then edit the distributionURl to the version you want. Here's a picture:

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answered Jul 22 '16 at 16:24

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score 0 · Answer 13 · edited Jun 30 '23 at 13:08

There are two easy existing ways to stop it without killing the process.

The first one is that you load two projects with Android Studio, and when you close your project, the Gradle building project, it will close immediately.

The second one is simply click on the file and click Close project and it will stop instantly.

The benefits of these method is you don't need to wait too much to start Android Studio again.

score 0 · Answer 14 · edited Jun 30 '23 at 13:16

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Kill the studio.exe process from Task Manager and then restart your machine. This is the only thing that is working for me.

If you kill every related process and don't restart the machine, you can't run or build your app because it will say "Another gradle instance running".

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answered May 23 '17 at 17:34

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score 0 · Answer 15 · edited Jun 30 '23 at 13:18

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As of Android Studio 3.0, the little red cross button next to the Gradle build status indicator bar seems to be working!

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answered Jun 19 '17 at 12:58

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score -1 · Answer 16 · edited Jun 30 '23 at 13:00

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On Windows, go to the Run dialog by pressing Windows + R and type taskkill /f /im studio64.exe. That will kill Android Studio and stop Gradle.

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answered May 21 '16 at 19:40

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just reboot your machine xD – abd3lraouf Aug 20 '19 at 14:38

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