How do I set GRADLE_LOCAL_JAVA_HOME?

Question

Whenever I open an existing Android project in Android Studio for the first time, Android Studio sets the Gradle JDK to GRADLE_LOCAL_JAVA_HOME which points to the Android Studio's built-in JDK. I would like GRADLE_LOCAL_JAVA_HOME to point to a different JDK location (the same that I use in my JAVA_HOME and the one I have in PATH) but I can't figure out how to do it.

It's annoying that whenever I open a project I get a wrong JDK by default and I must open the settings and choose the one under JAVA_HOME manually. I would like Android Studio to pick up my custom default automatically instead.

This documentation says that:

GRADLE_LOCAL_JAVA_HOME: uses the java.home property in the .gradle/config.properties file which defaults to the JetBrains Runtime.

I hoped that I could change it globally somewhere and tried creating $HOME/.gradle/config.properties and putting java.home there but it doesn't work. Does it mean Android Studio respects only the config.properties file in the project's .gradle directory?

Answer 1

you can override your Default JDK from File > New Project Setup > Setting for new project > Build, Execution, Deployment > Build Tools > Gradle and chagne the Default Gradle JDK.

FYI: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/214428183#comment10