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How can I fix "unexpected element <queries> found in <manifest>" error?

All of a sudden, I am getting this build error in my Android project:
unexpected element <queries> found in <manifest>
How do I fix it?

The Android Gradle Plugin needs to know about new manifest elements, particularly
for the manifest merger process. The plugin has a tendency to get confused if it
sees elements in the manifest merger that it does not recognize, tossing out
build errors like the one in the question.
In this case, Android 11 introduced <queries> as a manifest element, and older versions of the Android Gradle Plugin do not know about that element.
The fact that this occurs from manifest merger means that simply upgrading a dependency
might bring about this error. For example, if you upgrade to the latest
version of com.awesome:awesome-library, and it contained a <queries> element
in its manifest, you might crash with the aforementioned error in your builds,
even without any other changes in your code.
Google released a series of patch versions of the Android Gradle Plugin to address this:
3.3.3
3.4.3
3.5.4
3.6.4
4.0.1
If you are using an existing plugin in the 3.3.* through 4.0.* series, upgrade
to the associated patch version (or higher) from that list, and you should no longer
run into that error (e.g., classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1').
If you are using Android Studio 4.1 or higher, with a matching
Android Gradle Plugin (e.g., in the 4.1.* series), you should be fine without
any changes. Those plugin versions were already aware of <queries>.
See this Android Developers Blog post for more.

I had this issue in Flutter, but I believe this solution will work for both Flutter and native Flutter development.
Follow these steps
Read this short blog post to get some understanding: Preparing your Gradle build for package visibility in Android 11
Delete the .gradle folder inside the Android folder, i.e., android > .gradle
In the project build.gradle file, upgrade your class path appropriately based on the blog in the link above, e.g., I upgraded to classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1'
Upgrade the distribution URL too. It's in android>gradle>gradle-wrapper.properties file appropriately. E.g., I upgraded it to distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.1.1-all.zip
You can invalidate caches and restart your Android Studio. Make sure you have a good Internet connection, because it will download the new Gradle files.

I also suddenly had the same issue two days ago in Android Studio 4.1.1. I solved the issue by upgrading the build Gradle version.
Previous setting in the build.gradle file of the project was:
classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.3")
Current setting:
classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.4")
The issue was gone immediately. :)

Fixing the error is very simple.
Update your Android Studio to the last version
and use the last stable Gradle plugin version.
At the current time, I use Android Studio version 4.1.3 with Gradle Plugin 6.8.2
For use in queries, you should write queries code in out of application tag, not inside application tag.
For more information, see the photo below:

I had this error in the react-native-image-crop-picker library, and I solved this problem by updating the Gradle version as mentioned in previous answers.
It was:
classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.3")
Updated to:
classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.4")
And I ran a:
cd android && ./gradlew clean && cd .. && npx react-native run-android
Then it worked OK.

Due to the new default settings and features for package visibility in Android 11 that need to add <queries>, you must update your Android Gradle plugin.
Google has added some patches to current versions listed in Android Gradle plugin release notes, 4.0.0 (April 2020).
If you want to use a newer version of Android Gradle, you should search for a compatible wrapper from Android Gradle plugin release notes, Update Gradle.

Update your Gradle version to 4.0.1 or later.
File android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties: update the distribution URL to:
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.7-all.zip
File android/build.gradle: update the Gradle plugin:
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.2'
to 4.0.1 or later. Here it is 4.1.2 with Gradle version to 6.5 or later.
You can see the distribution chart at How to update gradle in android studio?

Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-all.zip'

Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-all.zip'
I have just installed Android Studio 3.5 on windows and then created new project then above exception occurs.
I have searched on google regarding the above error but none resolved.
Below are the links which I have tried but none worked
Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.1-all.zip'
Eclipse -Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.1-bin.zip'
Is this issue is with Antivirus which is installed in local machine ?.I am just guessing, is this because of Antivirus ?
I was trying with this since 3 days.Please help me on this.Any help would be appreciated.

I had the same problem and eventually I figured out that running Android Studio as administrator solves it. You can at least give it a try!

Steps to fix:
Close Android studio.
Right click on launcher icon of Android Studio
Click on "Run as administrator"
It will run like charm.

Goto gradle-wrapper
and see carefully the URL
distributionUrl=https \ ://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.1.1-all.zip
now correct the https \ :// to https://
and click on "try again upside."
it will took download the file and run automatically.
And after successful run promote thi$ answer.

Open your gradle-wrapper.properties and modify your distributionUrl to point to gradle-5.4.1-all.zip, i.e.
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-all.zip
Change classpath to 3.5.0
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.0'
...
}
}

Close your Android Studio, whatever version you are using.
Start it again with administrative log in.
Android Studio will detect what needs to be updated or downloaded.
Automatically it will resolve the issue.

5.5.1 is out now, try upgrading to that using ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=5.5.1 and see if that makes a difference. This is preferable to editing any Gradle files manually.

For me, i re-downloaded the new and latest version of android studio, installed it full.
that solved the problem for me.

download gradle 5.4.1 manually from https://downloads.gradle-dn.com/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-all.zip and extract the file and please it in .gralde file in your android project.
then restart the android studio

In case the complete error message is something like:
Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-all.zip'.
error in opening zip file
You need to delete two files( under your .gradle/wrapper/dists/* directory):
gradle-5.4.1-all.zip
gradle-5.4.1-all.zip.lck
Then try again to download dependencies or upgrade.

Sometimes it might be due to the broken files in .gradle file.
This is an hidden folder in installation directory. Remove the dists folder from this location and go to File -> Invalidate Caches/Restarts.
For me it helped.
rm -rf .gradle/wrapper/dists

I got the same issue in new "Android Studio Bumblebee | 2021.1.1" release. Like "Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-gradle-7.2-all.zip'".
I did the following steps,
Step 1:
I did the same steps mentioned here- https://stackoverflow.com/a/59420289/1122622 ,
Like,
Close Android studio.
Right click on launcher icon of Android Studio
Click on "Run as administrator".
Step 2:
Also, verified with official gradle URL- https://services.gradle.org/distributions/ , the given link was right or wrong.
Step 3:
Don't forget to restart the Android Studio once the gradle download was completed.
After all the above 3 steps your issue will be resolved for sure and it will be applicable for upcoming gradle upgrade issue.
Note: Also verify "Do not build Gradle task list during Gradle sync" is enabled, in File->Settings->Experimental->Gradle.

Check if you accidently changed Gradle user home path. Goto Preference in Android studio, search for gradle and check gradle user home path.
It should be like:
/Users/mac/.gradle/

From: classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.1'
To: classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.0'
And the gradle version:
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.1.1-all.zip
GL

I got this error while opening a very old project, the reason was that it was trying to fetch over http and not https. Update the distributionUrl path to https in the path \<project directory\>\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.properties and run the android studio in admin mode.

Please check the value of checksum that you are using in the 'gradle-wrapper.properties' for the version that you are using. It could also be a problem and you get the same error.
Find the value of checksum for the gradle versions at below link:
https://gradle.org/release-checksums/

1-Create new project on android studio
2-open the new project gradle-wrapper.properties
3-copie the new distributionUrl
4-paste it on your own project
5-click on try again
this will correct error

My solution is just turn on the offline mode, and give the wrong version value like "https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.2.1-all.zip", it shows the error like no offline package available and asks me to try in offline mode, then just replace with the exact correct value and turn off the offline mode, then click try again, it is worked for me.

Change this distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-bin.zip
to distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-bin.zip
Then click file, in the dropdown click invalidate Caches

Worked for me these steps
Goto->
gradle-wrapper.properties
Update this (backward slash after https)
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.0.2-bin.zip
to
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.0.2-bin.zip
and
Sync the project or click on "try again" option appearing on top
and restart the Android studio, it will automatically download required files.

Just find gradle-wrapper.properties in your IDE. And change version in
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-all.zip' to distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.8.3-bin.zip

Ensure the Network connection is very good and keep on retrying. Sometimes i tap retry few times before it works.

Android Studio 3.0 Canary 4 unsupported method NativeArtifact.getRuntimeFiles()

My project runs well under android studio 2.3. But with 3.0, it failed to refresh with this Error:
Error:Unsupported method: NativeArtifact.getRuntimeFiles().
The version of Gradle you connect to does not support that method.
To resolve the problem you can change/upgrade the target version of Gradle you connect to.
Alternatively, you can ignore this exception and read other information from the model.
I'm using Gradle 2.14.1 & Gradle android plugin 2.2.0. Upgrade Gradle (to 3.5) does not solve the problem.
Does anybody else have this problem and was able to find any workaround?

I had the same error message using 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.0'.
I found 2 ways for fixing this error :
Update Android Studio to version 3.3 (Help -> Check for Update...)
or switch to 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.1' in build.gradle.

Try to change in build.gradle
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1'
}

gradle fails with Problems reading data from Binary store error

I have a Gradle file that runs the tests. It does not build anything. All it has is a unzip task that extracts all jars in a Gradle configuration into a particular directory and then runs the task of type Test. This test task points the testClasses directory to the location where the previous copy task has extracted the configuration into.
My build fails with the error message:
Problems reading data from Binary store
When I run 'gradle dependencies' it does not show any error/warning
When I run the copy task individually, it runs very well fine.
Only when I run everything it fails with error :
> Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':testConfig'.$
> Problems reading data from Binary store in /tmp/gradle8793563212642185736.bin (exist: false)$
I see the file /tmp/gradle8793563212642185736.bin does not exist. What could be the reason for this?

I solved upgrading following packages to last version (06/02/2021), so:
project app-level build.gradle file:
com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:17.2.2
to
com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics:18.0.2
Project-level build.gradle file:
com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.3
to
com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.5

In my case setting org.gradle.parallel=false flag fixes the issue, but it's not a solution for my project, flag increase CI build time from ~15min to ~45min.

Turns out it was just a network problem for me. Gradle just needed to connect to the internet.

It happened with Flutter development in my case. Apparently, it is not an actual issue and there is no magic fix. Cleaning build file with "Flutter clean" and restarting the command line executer window solved the issue.

I was working with version 5.x earlier and then I upgraded to 6.0.1 and it resolved the issue.
this is how you can upgrade
cd android
./gradlew clean
./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 6.0.1
./gradlew -v # to download the new version
cd ..
flutter clean
flutter run # might take 15 - 20mins for the first time

There are mainly a few steps to solve this problem.
Go to gradle.properties and set org.gradle.parallel=false and sync. Make sure your sync gradle offline option is off
Start the build with this option. If it's a big project setting org.gradle.parallel=false will take a long time.
Cancel the build repeat the steps setting org.gradle.parallel=true.
Also do not turn on offline build

This solution worked in my flutter project. I solved it by making these changes:
In android level build.gradle file, replace classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.4' with classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1' (basically upgrade the version from 3.5.4 to 4.0.1)
In gradle-wrapper.properties file, replace distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.2-all.zip with distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.1.1-all.zip (upgrade from 5.6.2 to 6.1.1)
and if you have added classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.3' to android level build.gradle file, replace that too with classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.5' (upgrade from 4.3.3 to 4.3.5)

In my case the writing problem was there was no enough storage to build the app so I needed to restart my Mac and it finished building successfully.
I know am too late but it might help someone in the future so

Start by upgrading Gradle to the latest version.
Binary store issues reported to GitHub are often fixed right away, especially if they include a Minimal, Reproducible Example.
If upgrading didn't work, it can be useful to run the task again with Performance options disabled:
--no-parallel
--no-configure-on-demand
Next please find an existing issue or open a new one so it can be fixed in future versions. These things are all helpful:
Minimal, Reproducible Example
Build Scan
Smallest change that introduced the problem (e.g. worked on 5.5, but not 5.6)

I ended up here after publishing an artifact to mavenLocal().
I tried a lot but in the end what helped me was:
Upgrading gradle from 6.3 to 6.9
./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 6.9
Hope this saves me half an hour next time this occurs.

Thanks to Cedric's hint, stopping gradle offline mode and make it online, fixed the issue for me

Android Studio - Gradle sync project failed

In Android Studio, I simply created a new project, and it says that:
Gradle project sync failed. Basic functionality will not work properly.
I have searched the web and tried everything, but nothing worked. I have v0.4.6 of Android Studio using Gradle 1.11.
The Error Message Is:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* Where:
Build file 'C:\Users\Vinnie\AndroidStudioProjects\MyFirstAppProject\MyFirstApp\build.gradle' line: 9
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':MyFirstApp'.
> Gradle version 1.10 is required. Current version is 1.11. If using the gradle wrapper, try editing the distributionUrl in C:\Users\Vinnie\AndroidStudioProjects\MyFirstAppProject\MyFirstApp\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.properties to gradle-1.10-all.zip
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
BUILD FAILED
Total time: 1 mins 7.011 secs

The Android plugin 0.8.x doesn't support Gradle 1.11, you need to use 1.10.
You can read the proper error message in the "Gradle Console" tab.
EDIT
You need to change gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file in this way:
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.10-all.zip

In my case NDK location was the issue.
go to File->Project Structure->SDK Location and add NDK location

This may be helpful for some.
My problem exactly is incomplete gradle-1.12-all file download.
Below is screen shot of the Error
I re-downloaded the file from the gradle site here and extracted it in path/to/the/gradle, in my case was in C:\Users\maneeOsman\.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-1.12-all\2apkk7d25miauqf1pdjp1bm0uo
I closed the android studio and reopen it in administrator privilege (Run as administrator).
The android studio starts downloading the necessary files for building and debugging. You can notice that from bottom-left indicator bar.
After this, it is working fine.
See the screen shot below

Here is the solution I found: On the project tree "app", right click mouse button to get the context menu. Select "open module setting", on the tree "app" - "properties" tab, select the existing "build tools version" you have. The gradle will start to build.

I have encountered this problem And I solved it as follows: File->Sync Project with Gradle Files
good luck!

After applying this fix that was found here... https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=208295
in file $SDK/ndk_bundle/source.properties replace "12.0.2753695 beta 1" to "12.0.2753695-beta1"
My project was built successfully and ran on device and emulators although 5 warnings still remains.

Remove the dependency "junit:junit:4.12" from app modules...!!! This solution is for gradle to sync all files.

it was hard to solve but i did it
look go to
C:\Users\Vinnie\
delete .gradle file
its you didn't see it it may be in hidden files so if you use windows 7
right click then click on properties and click on hidden to be not checked
then the file will appear then delete it
i hope this works

I know this is an old thread but I ended up here with the same issue.
I solved it by comparing the dependencies classpath in the build.gradle script(Project) to the installed version.
The error message was pointing to the following folder
C:\Program Files\Android\android-studio3 preview\gradle\m2repository\com\android\tools\build\gradle
It turned out that the alpha2 version was installed but the classpath was still pointing to alpaha1. A simple change to the classpath ('com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-alpha2') was all that was needed.
This may not help everyone, but I do hope it help most people out.

I was behind firewall|proxy.
In my case with Studio, ERROR: Gradle sync failed & Cannot find symbol.
I have used
repositories {
jcenter(); // Points to HTTPS://jcenter.bintray.com
}
Replace it with http and maven
repositories {
maven { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com" }
}

i had same issue i solved by changing gradle plugin version and and gradle version
see image for more refrence

Use this line to your Build gradle app
repositories {
maven { url "http://jcenter.bintray.com" }}

Using an outdated gradle version may also result to fail in synchronization.
Download latest version from https://gradle.org/releases/ and download the "complete" latest version.
Now replace it with the outdated version which is located C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\gradle.
Go to settings(ctrl+alt+s) ,go to gradle and add the the new gradle directory in "use local gradle distribution" "Gradle home:C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\gradle\gradle4.4.1 ."
It Worked for me.
Hope u understand.

Update for 2018:
I have faced this issue recently and it was resolved by updating android studio & updating gradle when prompted then rebuilding the project

I had a "Install build tools and sync" link in the lower right hand corner of my screen. I clicked on that and it fixed the issue.

Each version of the Android Gradle Plugin now has a default version of the build tools. For the best performance, you should use the latest possible version of both Gradle and the plugin.
You recive this warning in case if you use latest gradle plugin but not use latest SDK version. For example for Gradle plugin 3.2.0 (September 2018) you requires Gradle 4.6 or higher and SDK Build Tools 28.0.3 or higher.
Although you typically don't need to specify the build tools version, when using Android Gradle plugin 3.2.0 with renderscriptSupportModeEnabled set to true, you need to include the following in each module's build.gradle file: android.buildToolsVersion "28.0.3"
see more https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin

Update gradle to the latest available version and implement libraries to the latest version available, also check if google play services is latest if used.