Display Gradle output in console in Intellij IDEA 2016.1.1
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Solution 1 - Intellij Idea
You can click the icon marked in the image bellow
> Toggle tasks executions/text mode
That will switch to the console log of your build and you can see what went wrong.
UPDATE: As of 2019.2.3, you don't need to toggle task/console view as you can see now both at the same time:
Solution 2 - Intellij Idea
Solution 3 - Intellij Idea
Alright, I know it's so obvious that you don't need to tell about it. But I've spent the whole day not getting what's going on)
If you cannot find logs, and see only Gradle steps, probably you just have to expand the logs window. Somehow it was minimized without my notice.
Added a screenshot just in case. Just drag the mouse pointer to the left on the spot circled in red.