Cannot resolve symbol with AutoValue and IntelliJ

Question

I have been trying to find the correct settings for IntelliJ\'s annotation processing in order for it to co-exist with Gradle\'s build process.

Whenever I build from Int

Answer 1

Just have your build.gradle with these and it works fine, no need of touching intellij, source set etc..

    plugins {
    id 'java'
    id "net.ltgt.apt" version "0.20"

}

apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'net.ltgt.apt-idea'
group 'abc'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'
    compile             "com.google.auto.value:auto-value-annotations:1.6.2"
    annotationProcessor "com.google.auto.value:auto-value:1.6.2"
}