Github user russaa commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/cordova-android/pull/396 I have to say, I like the current solution better (using `gradle` from Android Studio): 1. you are not required to install something, that you may already have installed 2. if you are building/debugging the Cordova app with Android Studio, you can be sure that builds are same (as you are using the same version of `gradle`) 3. users who prefer to install `gradle` separately still have this option If you want to get rid of the automatic-detection (because it may become cumbersome to maintain) I would still like to have the option of using Android Studio's `gradle` by pointing to its place via the env variable. Its code should be fairly easy to maintain, since the user is responsible to specify the correct path, i.e. the detection routine only needs to look into the env variable and does not need to be adjusted to changing path structures etc. itself. Although the mechanism then should maybe be changed, so that the env variable needs to point the `gradle` directory directly, instead of the Android Studio directory (which it does now), e.g. change the env variable to something like `GRADLE_HOME` and the path would need to point, e.g. to the `gradle` sub-directory of the Android Studio directory. As an additional reason: I assume the _"install `gradle` separately/as requirement"_ option also means, that you must have `gradle` in your PATH env variable. On Windows, this is a concern for me, as the PATH variable has a maximum length -- which I, for instance, are always about to exceed. So I try to not have paths there, if I can avoid it.
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