diff --git a/bin/lib/create.js b/bin/lib/create.js
index 13447da7..0e929e3a 100755
--- a/bin/lib/create.js
+++ b/bin/lib/create.js
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ exports.createProject = function(project_path, package_name, project_name, proje
             shell.cp('-r', path.join(project_template_dir, 'assets'), project_path);
             shell.cp('-r', path.join(project_template_dir, 'res'), project_path);
             shell.cp('-r', path.join(ROOT, 'framework', 'res', 'xml'), path.join(project_path, 'res'));
+            shell.cp(path.join(project_template_dir, 'gitignore'), path.join(project_path, '.gitignore'));
 
             // Manually create directories that would be empty within the template (since git doesn't track directories).
             shell.mkdir(path.join(project_path, 'libs'));
diff --git a/bin/templates/project/gitignore b/bin/templates/project/gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a1c8ff71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/templates/project/gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Non-project-specific build files:
+build.xml
+local.properties
+/gradlew
+/gradlew.bat
+/gradle
+# Ant builds
+ant-built
+ant-gen
+# Eclipse builds
+gen
+out
+# Gradle builds
+/build