What is gradle sync in Android Studio?

Question

What is it? And what does it do? I\'m working on an enterprise that has a proxy, and it fails trying to connect to somewhere. Why does it needs internet connection? What ports d

Answer 1

What is it?

I believe it's an IntelliJ/Android Studio term for these Gradle tasks:

1. dependencies
2. build

Gradle itself doesn't have "sync" task.

I use the term "believe" since there's no explanation from Gradle/IntelliJ/Android Studio official documentation