OSX Android studio's gradle cannot read .bash_profile environment variable [duplicate]

Question

I am having a KEY_STRING as system variable in mac OSX and Windows. Which has absolute path to my keystore.

~/.bash_profile entry would be

export KEY_STRING =~/config/release-signing.keystore

Same path setup in each of my team mates machines[Windows/OSX/Linux].

My Gradle script to access this variable would be

def keystorePath = System.getenv("KEY_STRING");
println keystorePath;

This script works fine in Windows in both console and android studio.

My problem specific to mac android studio.

If I run the build in terminal which is working fine and reads the env variable.

But when I do gradle sync or set up run configuration [Gradle task] it cannot resolve the variable.

I have reported this issue to Google as well.

Again here is the quick summary:

Setup an environment variable in ~/.bash_profile
Read it anywhere in build.gradle

def keystorePath = System.getenv("KEY_STRING"); println keystorePath;
Add gradle task in configuration.
It is not reading the environment variable.

Not at all.. It is specific to android studio's gradle. It cannot read the variable. — Mahendran
– Mahendran, Commented Sep 3, 2015 at 13:18
... because OSX app's don't have access to environment variables set in .bash_profile. — trojanfoe
– trojanfoe, Commented Sep 3, 2015 at 13:34
Is there any workaround to put these env variable? I didn't want to mess my build.gradle — Mahendran
– Mahendran, Commented Sep 3, 2015 at 13:40
Yes.. I read it's no longer working in Yosmite with 30 upvotes in comment. — Mahendran
– Mahendran, Commented Sep 3, 2015 at 14:12

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:15:00Z

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None of the OSX apps can read the environment variable.

As per this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/14285335/981555

solution for my problem would be

launchctl setenv KEY_STRING ~/config/release-signing.keystore

This should be set before launching Android studio.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:15

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Dr. Andrew Burnett-Thompson Over a year ago

To add to this answer, I was actually able to get the environment variables set automatically on OSX Login by using a combination of AppleScript saved as Application, Started on Login Items in Users and Groups, and using this syntax: do shell script "launchctl setenv ANDROID_HOME /users/$(whoami)/Library/Android/sdk". This runs the launchctl setenv when the user logs in and then applications and terminal can see the environment variables

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