IDEA&#x27;s native Gradle support is excellent. I haven&#x27;t had to use Gradle&#x27;s IntelliJ plugin (the Gradle bit that generates the IDE files) for at least two years now. All I have to do is (on Mac OS X):<p><pre><code>    open -a &#x2F;Applications&#x2F;IntelliJ\ IDEA\ 15\ CE.app build.gradle
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At work, we have a Gradle project with 346 submodules. We have about 200 engineers working on the codebase. Gradle&#x2F;IDEA combination works well beautifully.<p>There are a few rough edges, especially when one uses custom source sets. IDEA 16 is going to get better support for that [1].<p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&#x2F;idea&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;intellij-idea-16-eap-starts-the-faster-release-cycle&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jetbrains.com&#x2F;idea&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;intellij-idea-16-eap-...</a>