Run groovy shell in Android Studio Gradle project

android, android-studio, groovy

Solution

Try to add groovy in your `buildscript` classpath dependencies:

buildscript {
    dependencies {
        ...
        classpath 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:1.8.6'
    }
}

That fixed the error for me.

Problem

When I try to start the Groovy shell in an Android Studio gradle project I get the error ``` Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GroovyStarter at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) at com.intellij.rt.execution.CommandLineWrapper.main(CommandLineWrapper.java:115) ``` I'm running Android Studio 0.3.7 on a MacBook Pro. Any ideas how to fix that?

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