I just turned on an old computer and am trying to access some code. After updating all of my Android Studio, JDK, and Downloading the latest Gradle I am having trouble building the project. I get this error ;
ERROR: Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:5.4.1.
Searched in the following locations:
- https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/gradle/5.4.1/gradle-5.4.1.pom
- https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/gradle/5.4.1/gradle-5.4.1.jar
Required by:
project :
Add Google Maven repository and sync project
Open File
I have dont this and this
Below is the content of build.gradle file
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:5.4.1'
}
}
Below is the content of wrapper file
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-all.zip
in my settings I have toggled between default and setting my path manually. I have also attemted to add google() and MavenCentral() to the repositories
I just ant to build and run my app but it is saying no! haha help
Don't confuse gradle with the Android Gradle plugin.
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:5.4.1'
It is the Android Gradle plugin and 5.4.1 doesn't exist.
Use the latest stable release:
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.1'
Check the release notes for other versions.
If you open URL https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/gradle, there is no 5.4.1.
For gradle version meanings, please check What is real Android Studio Gradle Version?.
For your case, you need to add google() repo in your buildscript closure and modify the android-gradle-plugin version to be 3.4.1
buildscript {
repositories {
google()// <-- add this.
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.1'
}
And, also, probably, you need to update your allprojects closure as below:
allprojects {
repositories {
google()// <-- add this.
jcenter()
}
}
Edit #1
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-all.zip
This is the wrapper configuration telling which gradle version to use for your android gradle plugin. It is NOT the plugin version.
I tried to add the Google location Service to my Android Project by referencing the official link.
As the tutorial said I added the following line to the dependencies section in the Project Gradle file.
implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:11.8.0"
But when i resynced the project i got the following error
Error:(19, 0) Could not find method implementation() for arguments [com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:11.8.0] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.
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I am using Android Studio 3.0.1 and Gradle Version 4.1.
How to overcome this error?
please try this
Add in Build.gradel at app lavel
dependencies {
Implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.6.0'
}
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common
to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0'
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.0.0'
// NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they
belong
// in the individual module build.gradle files
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
}
task clean(type: Delete) {
delete rootProject.buildDir
}
I think you have forgot to add maven repository in your app gradle file. Try by doing these steps. Open the build.gradle file for your application. Make sure that the repositories section includes a maven section with the "https://maven.google.com" endpoint. For example: allprojects {repositories {jcenter()maven {url "https://maven.google.com"}}}
Avoid using + in your dependencies as it android studio will try to update dependencies every 24 hours. Also replace compile by implementation for low APK size.
Edit 1:
As you told maven repository did not worked.
Check your project settings by going to Android Studio.
Click on file
click on project structure
There will option of Project in sidebar. Tap on it.
Check for the gradle and andrpid plugin version.
Put these values
Gradle Version - 4.1
Android plugin version - 3.0.1
Android Plugin Repository - jcenter,google()
Default Library Repository - jcenter, 'https://maven.google.com'
Reply me if it works
I've upgraded to Android Studio 3.1 in Canary channel and I cannot build my project anymore, this error is printed:
Unable to load class 'com.android.builder.Version'. Possible causes
for this unexpected error include:
Gradle's dependency cache may be corrupt (this sometimes occurs after a network connection timeout.) Re-download dependencies and sync
project (requires network)
The state of a Gradle build process (daemon) may be corrupt. Stopping all Gradle daemons may solve this problem. Stop Gradle build
processes (requires restart)
Your project may be using a third-party plugin which is not compatible
with the other plugins in the project or the version of Gradle
requested by the project. In the case of corrupt Gradle processes, you
can also try closing the IDE and then killing all Java processes.
I already tried both of those solutions and also tried deleting all the ~/.gradle/caches directory but the error persists.
Looking for similar error I've found the old version of Android Studio having this issues with the suggested solution to upgrade the android tools version.
I think I already have the last one:
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.0-alpha01'
EDIT (30 Oct 2017):
Answers show that someone is having the issue while someone isn't.
As pointed out in the comments to this question this can be caused by a non compatible plugin, so I list the plugins used in my project here:
buildscript {
ext.kotlin_version = '1.1.51'
repositories {
jcenter()
google()
// maven {
// url 'https://maven.google.com'
// }
maven {
url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
}
}
dependencies {
classpath "com.gradle:build-scan-plugin:1.10"
classpath 'com.getkeepsafe.dexcount:dexcount-gradle-plugin:0.8.1'
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.0-alpha01'
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.1.1'
classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
}
}
The dexcount one is currently not used tough because of some incompatibilities with newer versions of Android plugin.
I had the same issue and what we have in common is the dexcount plugin. Disabling this issue until the two plugins are compatible. See dexcount bug report.
"updating to dexcount 0.8.2 fixes the issue"
Apparently going back to a previous version of the Android Tools plugin works:
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0'
But the IDE ask me if I want to update to 3.1.0-alpha1 so I wander if this is a bug or if the issue lay somewhere else.
I just leave this solution here until someone else come up with another explanation.
No idea why your build is not working, but after a clean install of Android Studio 3.1 and using this setting everything works fine compiling a large project which contains several libraries (and mixed with java, kotlin).
buildscript {
ext {
gradle_version = "3.1.0-alpha01"
kotlin_version = "1.1.51"
}
repositories {
maven {
url 'https://maven.google.com'
}
maven {
url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots'
}
jcenter()
google()
}
dependencies {
classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:$gradle_version"
classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
maven {
url 'https://maven.google.com'
}
jcenter()
google()
}
gradle.projectsEvaluated {
tasks.withType(JavaCompile) {
options.compilerArgs << "-Xmaxerrs" << "500"
}
}
}
and my app-based gradle.
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
android {
...
}
i changed my class path line in gradle (project : project name) and issue is gone.
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.2'
I'm getting the following error when trying to compile my app:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring project ':myProject'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':myProject:classpath'.
> Could not find org.jetbrains.trove4j:trove4j:20160824.
Searched in the following locations:
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jetbrains/trove4j/trove4j/20160824/trove4j-20160824.pom
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jetbrains/trove4j/trove4j/20160824/trove4j-20160824.jar
https://maven.fabric.io/public/org/jetbrains/trove4j/trove4j/20160824/trove4j-20160824.pom
https://maven.fabric.io/public/org/jetbrains/trove4j/trove4j/20160824/trove4j-20160824.jar
https://maven.google.com/org/jetbrains/trove4j/trove4j/20160824/trove4j-20160824.pom
https://maven.google.com/org/jetbrains/trove4j/trove4j/20160824/trove4j-20160824.jar
Required by:
project :metam > com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-beta2 > com.android.tools.build:gradle-core:3.0.0-beta2 >
com.android.tools.lint:lint:26.0.0-beta2 > com.android.tools.lint:lint-checks:26.0.0-beta2 > com.android.tools.lint:lint-
api:26.0.0-beta2 > com.android.tools.external.com-intellij:intellij-core:26.0.0-beta2
It appears a library the IDE needs is missing?
this issue can be resolved by adding jcenter() as a repository in the buildscript section.
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-beta2'
}
}
Additional to Snicolas' answer:
If you have something like:
allprojects {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
google()
jcenter() //also add it here!!!
}
}
In your build.gradle file; also add it there.
Since jCenter will close in May, you should change root/build.gradle so:
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
gradlePluginPortal()
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
// org.jetbrains.trove4j:trove4j:20160824.
gradlePluginPortal()
}
}
See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/66168563/2914140 to add libraries not included in Maven.
Now we can build apk without errors.
If you're seeing this error after May 1st 2021, it's probably because jcenter is shut down. It's needed by the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP). Google devs have said they're using a newer version of the library that can be got from mavenCentral() as of AGP 7 and hoping to backport that into AGP 4.2 and 4.1. So first of all, try and upgrade to AGP 7. And if I haven't edited this post with updates, check to see is it in any lower AGP versions.
But if you can't upgrade AGP, as of initial time of posting (February 2021), the only repo I could find with the trove package is on pentaho, which seems to be owned by Hitachi so I presume it's safe.
buildscript {
repositories {
maven { url "https://nexus.pentaho.org/content/groups/omni" }
}
dependencies {
classpath 'org.jetbrains.trove4j:trove4j:20160824'
}
}
This is NOT an ideal solution. This repo could be intended to be private for all I know. Look for a better answer that might be posted after me.
I solved this problem
deleting in build.gradlew
repositories {
jcenter()
}
And change the mavenCentral() to jcenter() and deleting google()
Migrating away from jcenter? jcenter will sunset on the 1st of May
You may face this issue if you are migrating away from jcenter. The issue happens because Trove4j library was being fetched from jcenter and you removed jcenter repository while migrating away from jcenter.
Solution:
Add the following to the project build.gradle:
maven { url 'https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/' }
It should be added to:
build.gradle(peoject) -> buildscript -> repositories
build.gradle(peoject) -> allprojects -> repositories
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
// ** Add this line **
maven { url 'https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/' }
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
// ** Add this line **
maven { url 'https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/' }
}
}
Since jcenter will sunset on 1st of May, 2021. jcenter repository should be removed from the project. This means that all occurrences to "jcenter()" should be removed. This can lead to an issues with the libraries hosted by jcenter. You should provide another repository that host the library such as maven. Some unmaintained libraries maybe are not moved to any other repository. In this case, you might need to consider opening an issue for the library or not using it. You will face all these issues on the 1st of May and you may be unable to build your app if you are not doing the migration now.
Just delete .idea,.gradle and gradle folder and restart your application.
Try to replace mavenCentral() with jcenter() in your build.gradle file
allprojects {
repositories {
jcenter()
//.......
}
}
Go to Help->About in Android Studio and check your version. Enter that vesion in build.gradle App Mudule & same for project build.gradle as done in the
classpath line here:
buildscript {
...
repositories {
...
}
dependencies {
...
classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:{THREE.DIGIT.VERSION}"
}
}
This was happening to me every time I upgraded the Gradle Plugin, so what I did and worked:
Delete your package-lock.json or yarn.lock
Run npm i or yarn to update all node modules in your project
Rename your ios project to ios_ for example
Run react-native link to link all dependencies again to your android project
Rename back ios_ to ios
Check the file (project/build.gradle) what Gradle Plugin version you're using. The version 3.4.1 worked for me.
Check your Gradle version (gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties), the version 5.4.1 worked here.
Open your Android project using Android Studio, navigate to Build > "Rebuild project"
And finally, try sync/build again.
Hope it can help someone.
This is my first attempt at Android Studio. I installed 0.8.0 and updated to 0.8.2. As soon as a project is created I get the error message:
Error:(1, 0) Plugin with id 'com.android.application' not found
C:\Users\Bob\AndroidStudioProjects\HelloAgain6\app\build.gradle
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
android {
compileSdkVersion 20
buildToolsVersion "20.0.0"
defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.example.bob.helloagain6"
minSdkVersion 15
targetSdkVersion 20
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
}
buildTypes {
release {
runProguard false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
}
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
}
and C:\Users\Bob\AndroidStudioProjects\HelloAgain6\build.gradle
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.12.+'
// NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
// in the individual module build.gradle files
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
}
Updated Answer (Dec. 2, 2020)
Latest Gradle: 6.5
Version check:
./gradlew -v
How to update:
Set URL: ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=6.5 --distribution-type=all
Update: ./gradlew wrapper
Latest Android Gradle Plugin: 4.1.0
If you add the following code snippet to the top of your build.gradle file. Gradle will update the build tools.
buildscript {
repositories {
google() // For Gradle 4.0+
maven { url 'https://maven.google.com' } // For Gradle < 4.0
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0'
}
}
Read more here: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/index.html and about version compatibility here: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin.html#updating-gradle and https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/index.html.
Original Answer
I had this same error, you need to make sure your Gradle version is compatible with your Android Gradle Plugin.
The latest version of Gradle is 2.0 but you need to use 1.12 in order to use the Android Gradle Plugin.
This can happen if you miss adding the Top-level build file.
Just add build.gradle to top level.
It should look like this
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.xx.y'
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
}
In my case, I download the project from GitHub and the Gradle file was missing. So I just create a new project with success build. Then copy-paste the Gradle missing file. And re-build the project is working for me.
Root-gradle file:
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:x.x.x'
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
}
Gradle-wrapper.properties file:
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-x.x-all.zip
In the project level build.gradle file, I have replaced this line
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.6.3'
with this one
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.3'
After adding both of those lines, and syncing, everything became fine.
Hope this will help someone.
I am writing this not as a solution meant for many, but for some people who may commit a simple mistake like specifying the wrong url for importing projects from SVN. It is intended for those guys :)
This happened to me when I imported the project from SVN -> automatic prompt by Studio to open the project -> It asked for Gradle location -> D:\Software\Android\gradle-2.5 -> Then the error.
The same project in a different SVN branch works fine with the Gradle plugin and Gradle which I have configured in Studio. I tried changing Android Gradle plugin and Gradle to get it working on the erring branch without any success.
Finally, I figured out that it was my following mistake:
I tried importing a specific Application alone instead of importing the application along with dependent library projects.
The url which I used for import initially had the Application porject's name at the end. Once I removed it, and specified the parent directory which contained both application project and its dependent project, everything went smooth :)
I found the problem after one hour struggling with this error message:
I accidentally renamed the root build.gradle to filename in builde.gradle, so Android Studio didn't recognize it anymore.
Renaming it to build.gradle resolved the issue!
I still got the error
Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0.
Problem: jcenter() did not have the required libs
Solution: add google() as repo
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0"
}
}
I was using IntelliJ IDEA 13.1.5 and faced with the same problem after I changed versions of Picasso and Retrofit in dependencies in build.gradle file. I tried use many solutions, but without result.
Then I cloned my project from remote git (where I pushed it before changing versions of dependencies) and it worked! After that I just closed current project and imported old project from Gradle file to IntelliJ IDEA again and it worked too! So, I think it was strange bug in intersection of IDEA, Gradle and Android plugin. I hope this information can be useful for IDEA-users or anyone else.
Go to your grade file where you can see this:
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.0'
// NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
// in the individual module build.gradle files
}
}
And change classpath to this:
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
// classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.0'
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle-experimental:0.7.0-alpha1'
// NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
// in the individual module build.gradle files
}
}
The other answers didn't work for me, I guess something wrong happens between ButterKnife and 3.0.0 alpha5.
However, I found that when I annotated any one sentence, either BUtterKnife or 3.0.0 alpha5, it works normally.
So, you should just avoid the duplication or conflict.
For future reference: For me, this issue was solely caused by the fact that I wasn't running Android Studio as administrator. I had the shortcut on Windows configured to always run as administrator, but after reinstalling Android Studio, the shortcut was replaced, and so it ran without administrator rights. This caused a lot of opaque errors, including the one in this question.
This issue happened when I accidently renamed the line
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
on file app/build.gradle to some other name. So, I fixed it by changing it to what it was.
[FOR FLUTTER] go to your build Gradle then check if you have three paths
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.0'
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.2'
classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
}
I somehow removed the android tools classpath and was getting the error.
This just happened to me using Android Studio 1.3.2, however, since I had just created the project, I deleted it and created it again.
It seems that it had not been properly created by Android Studio the first time, not even the project folders where as expected.
If you run a the module task with android plugin 1.2.3 in module directory , the problem appears. Try this:
../gradlew -b ../build.gradle -c ../settings.gradle :module:xxx
Make sure your two build.gradle and settings.gradle files are in the correct directories as stated in https://developer.android.com/studio/build/index.html
Then open "as existing project" in Visual Studio
Gradle is very finicky about this.
I got this error message after making the following change in my top-level build.gradle to update to the latest version of gradle:
//classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.2' old
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.3' //new
I foolishly made the change while I was connected behind a hostile workplace proxy. The proxy caused the .jar files for the new version of gradle to become corrupt. This can be verified by inspecting the jars to see if they are an unusual size or whether they can be unzipped.
In order to fix the mistake, I connected to my network at home (which is not behind a proxy) and did a refresh dependencies from the Terminal:
./gradlew --refresh-dependencies
This caused the newer version of gradle to be re-downloaded and the error no longer occurs.
Check the spelling, mine was 'com.android.aplication'
This may also happen when you have both settings.gradle and settings.gradle.kts files are present in project root directory (possibly with the same module included). You should only have one of these files.
i had similar problem and i did following things to resolve it.
i referred to https://developer.android.com/studio/build
and copy / pasted these following lines before apply plugin lines
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.0'
}
}
module app build.gradle file
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
model{
android {
compileSdkVersion 23
buildToolsVersion "23.0.2"
defaultConfig.with {
applicationId "com.iamsafe"
minSdkVersion 15
targetSdkVersion 23
}
buildTypes {
debug {
minifyEnabled = false
useProguard = true
proguardFiles.add(file('proguard-rules.txt'))
}
}
}
}
dependencies {
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.0.2'
compile files('libs/asmack-android-8-0.8.10.jar')
compile files('libs/commons-io-2.0.1.jar')
compile files('libs/httpclient-osgi-4.2.1-sources.jar')
compile files('libs/httpcore-4.3.2.jar')
compile files('libs/httpmime-4.1.2.jar')
}
project build.gradle
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.10'
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
jcenter()
}
}
In this case of issues check below code
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:**1.5.0**'
}
and gradle-wrapper.properties inside your project directory check below disctributionUrl:
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.9-all.zip
If these are not compatible with each other then you end up in this issue.
For com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.5. you need a version at least 2.8 but if you switch to a higher version like com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.0 then you need to update your gradle to 2.9 and above this can be done by changing distributionUrl in gradle-wrapper.properties to 2.9 or higher as below
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.10-all.zip
If you work on Windows , you must start Android Studio name by Administrator.
It solved my problem
Just make sure you put the http and https proxy correctly when you create the app