Gradle and Gradle wrapper versions

Question

Can I have Gradle of version 2.10 and inside the build.gradle define a wrapper of version 3.0?

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = "3.0"
}

Answer 1

The configuration in build.gradle just has influence for the wrapper task. It will create the wrapper configuration with this version if you execute gradle wrapper .

Alternatively you can just change the version directly in the gradle-wrapper.properties as you did.