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My solution has a bunch of projects one of which is a windows service; I have a prebuild step to stop the service and a postbuild step to restart it (this way the windows service exe is not locked when VS is building/overwriting it). on pre-build: net stop myservice on post-build: net start myservice If the service is not running while I'm starting the build, the net stop command fails and that prevents the build from proceeding. What can I do to still force the build even if the pre-build step failed? I figured it out - you simply need to add the following statement at the end: SET ERRORLEVEL

So far I have added the following to the end of my "build.gradle" task copyFiles(type: Copy) copyFiles { description = 'Copies html5 files from the common library...' from '../../www' into 'assets/www' include('**/*') } Now I just need some help on how o make this task get executed everytime (before) compiling the android source. I can run the copy task manually from command line, but Id like to have it run when I click "run" in android studio. With the help of suggestion below, I have added clean.dependsOn copyFiles clean.mustRunAfter copyFiles And with this addition I can get my copy task to