IDEA's native Gradle support is excellent. I haven't had to use Gradle's IntelliJ plugin (the Gradle bit that generates the IDE files) for at least two years no

IDEA's native Gradle support is excellent. I haven't had to use Gradle's IntelliJ plugin (the Gradle bit that generates the IDE files) for at least two years now. All I have to do is (on Mac OS X): open -a /Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 15\ CE.app build.gradle At work, we have a Gradle project with 346 submodules. We have about 200 engineers working on the codebase. Gradle/IDEA combination works well beautifully. There are a few rough edges, especially when one uses custom source sets. IDEA 16 is going to get better support for that [1]. [1]: http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/12/intellij-idea-16-eap-starts-the-faster-release-cycle/ http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2015/12/intellij-idea-16-eap-...