title: How to use/start the gradle daemon on a Mac?
body: <p>Every time I execute a gradle command on Mac I get a message saying:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"This build could be faster, please consider using the Gradle Daemon: https://docs.gradle.org/2.10/userguide/gradle_daemon.html"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've created a gradle.properties file with the line org.gradle.daemon=true as mentioned in the web page given in the message. However no matter what I do, I still continue to get that message.</p>
  
  <p>If I execute the command </p>
  
  <pre><code>gradle --daemon
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>then it executes successfully, but still next time I do something I get that message about it could be faster and builds are just as slow as before I started the daemon.</p>
  
  <p>My installation directory is no /Users/username as in gradle_daemon.html as I'm falling a Udacity course (<a href="https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-ud867/" rel="noreferrer">https://www.udacity.com/course/viewer#!/c-ud867/</a>) and they recommend installing it to /usr/local/gradle</p>
  
  <p>How can I actually get the gradle dameon to work and get rid of that could be faster message?</p>
  
  <p>(Using Gradle version 2.10)</p>