Intellij Idea 14.1.4 Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 and later. From the IDE: Import Project -> (Chosen directory to import) -> Import project from external model, Gradle -> Gradle Home: /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/2.4/libexec Gradle JVM: Use JAVA_HOME (not defined yet) From shell: echo $JAVA_HOME /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home (defined in .profile: export JAVA_HOME="$(/usr