Run gradle in offline mode

Sometimes it’s necessary to run gradle in offline mode. E.g. when having no internet connection or when you want to prevent gradle to download files in case you have a limited download volume. This describes how to run gradle in offline mode.

In the end I describe two possible ways here. The first is the standard way you can find in the gradle documentation. The second one a more improved one that imho is more convenient.

Using a parameter

The most easiest way is to simply add the parameter --offline. This prevents that gradle is using the network for any communication. The disadvantage of that solution is that you have to add that parameter to every command.

The following code snippet shows that you can do that by simply adding the parameter to the gradle command.

That’s it.

Using init.gradle

A much more convenient way is to have an init.gradle file that can be set globally for all gradle builds.

In that case simply add a file called init.gradle in the folder .gradle of the user home directory. That file will be executed for every gradle build. This might look like the following:

Having the hint there prints you gradle in offline mode before the build so you don’t forget the offline mode is active.

So you only have to set the boolean value to true or false depending on whether you want to run offline or online.

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