Is it mandatory to use Gradle with Android Studio?
<p>I'm using android studio since its official release. Till now which I use Android Studio version 2.1.2, I need to wait for hours to import a project for first time and let gradle synchronize. Some people recommend to run android studio in offline mode but when I want to use external libraries I need to make my project synced and so I have to enable gradle.</p>

<p>Is there a way that I can get rid of Gradle?</p>

<p>As an example:</p>

<pre><code>4:19:03 PM Executing tasks: [:app:clean, :app:generateDebugSources, :app:generateDebugAndroidTestSources, :app:prepareDebugUnitTestDependencies, :app:mockableAndroidJar, :app:assembleDebug]
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<p>And now it is 4:30 and still gradle build is running! It was just required to press F11 in Eclipse and debug  application in 20 seconds.</p>