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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