title: How do I read properties defined in local.properties in gradle.properties
body: <p>In my Android Studio project I have proxy settings defined in gradle.properties file, that is synched with Git repo. As long as I have my proxy password defined there, I need to move it into local.properties file. I want to achive smth like this:</p>
  
  <p>in <strong>gradle.properties</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>systemProp.http.proxyPassword=&lt;local.properties&gt;.proxy_pass
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and in <strong>local.properties</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>proxy_pass="PASSWORD"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I do that?</p>