How to use an existing Gradle project in IntelliJ IDEA 13/14
gradle, intellij-idea
Solution
What you state in your update is the correct way to go. The Gradle Plug-in received a lot of love in the IDEA 13 update and has changed a bit. An import of the Gradle build file is necessary. And as you have noted, the `JetGradle` tool window is now named simple `Gradle`
Problem
I am using Gradle and IntelliJ IDEA. Normally I use `apply plugin: 'idea'` to generate the IDEA project files. With IDEA 12 I was used to work with the JetGradle tool view. Now I updated to IDEA 13 and the JetGradle tool view is gone. When I use the old run configuration `gradle:run`, IDEA tells me: ``` Error running gradle:run: Module 'X' is not backed by gradle. ``` How can I activate the gradle build in IDEA 13 without the tool view? I found this tweet from Cédric Champeau, but was still not able to solve it. Do I have to turn my simple gradle project into a multi module project or what? Update With `File - Import Project ...` I can import the `build.gradle` file and than I can choose `View - Tool Windows - Gradle`, which was hidden before. Is this the way to go?