What should be in my .gitignore for an Android Studio project?

Question

What files should be in my .gitignore for an Android Studio project?

I\'ve seen several examples that all include .iml but IntelliJ docs sa

Answer 1

I disagree with all of these answers. The following configuration is working great for our organization's app.

I ignore:

• /build
• /.idea (with possible exceptions, see comments in dalewking's answer)
• *.iml
• local.properties

I think almost everyone agrees about /build.

I got sick of constantly seeing messages about the various library.xml files that Gradle creates or deletes in /.idea. The build.gradle will run on the developers's local when they first check out the project, so why do those XML files need to be versioned? Android Studio will also generate the rest of /.idea when a developer creates a project using Check out from Version Control, so why does anything in that folder need to be versioned?

If the *.iml is versioned a new user will have to name the project exactly the same as it was when committed. Since this is also a generated file, why version it in the first place?

The local.properties files points to an absolute path on the file system for the SDK, so it definitely shouldn't be versioned.

Edit 1: Added .gradle to ignore the gradle caching stuff that should not be versioned (thanks Vasily Makarov).

Edit 2: Added .DS_Store now that I am using Mac. This folder is Mac specific and should not be versioned.

Additional note: You probably also want to add a directory to put your signing keys in when building a release version.

For copy/paste convenience:

.gradle
/build
/.idea
*.iml
local.properties
.DS_Store