Why is my Android:Run task being run when I execute Desktop:Run in my libgdx project?

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I am using IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2.3 (normal IDE, not Android Studio) on windows 10.
I have set up a libgdx project with android and desktop modules.
When trying to run Desktop:Run, Android:Run is also executed beforehand.
I have checked the build files in the main projects, as well as the modules Core, Android, and Desktop.
Android is not specified as a dependency of Desktop.

Weirdly, If I open a completely different project in a separate window, I can suddenly execute Desktop:Run normally.
The projects do not rely on each-other, so I am guessing that the gradle wrapper is borrowing settings from the second unrelated project when trying to execute tasks for the original project.

Completely confused here…any ideas what is going on?

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How are you executing gradle? From IDEA? Does the problem also happen if you execute it from the command line?

One thing I could imagine (without knowing your concrete build setup) is that you somehow run

./gradlew run

and not

./gradlew desktop:run

the earlier would execute all available ‘run’ tasks.