Gradle + Eclipse/IntelliJ integration for watching (re)sources and executing different tasks on file changes (automatic continuous builds inside IDEs)

Hi Gabor,

this is one of the features on our sponsorship opportunities list for Buildship: Executing certain Gradle tasks on each auto build. You’d specify those tasks in your build file and Buildship would automatically execute them whenever the project is built in Eclipse.

IntelliJ doesn’t really have an “auto build” and instead runs external tools like javac. Android Studio already calls Gradle instead of running javac. So at least for Android projects you can already wire in tasks that need to be run. I’m not sure whether that is also possible for plain Java projects.

Cheers,
Stefan