The integration with IDEA and Eclipse for Gradle is actually quite good, the only downside is that it's "one-way". That is to say that you can't use the IDE's G

The integration with IDEA and Eclipse for Gradle is actually quite good, the only downside is that it's "one-way". That is to say that you can't use the IDE's GUI to configure your build. Gradle enables this as a first-class citizen by providing a "Tooling API": https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/embedding.html https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/embedding.html I know that Buildship, the Eclipse plugin that integrates Gradle, is actually worked on pretty heavily by Gradle contributors. I don't know about IDEA but that's the IDE that I use for Java development and the Gradle integration is very, very good.