Android Studio: Gradle build fails — Execution failed for task ':compileDebugAidl'

Question

After changes to source and building with gradle in Android Studio (I/O preview) AI - 130.677228 the build fails with the following error:

Gradle: 
FAILURE: Buil         


        

Answer 1

Add:

compileSdkVersion 17 to your buid.gradel file (below).

And use version 3 of the plugin: com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.3 (or higher for future questions,etc)

Edit: reference project I just created. Builds, signs,etc https://github.com/yegdroid/gradle_demo

//
// A basic Android application that follows all the conventions
//
buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.3'
    }
}
apply plugin: 'android'

android {
    testBuildType = "debug"

    defaultConfig {
        versionCode = 1
        versionName = "0.1"
        minSdkVersion = 9
        targetSdkVersion = 17


        compileSdkVersion 17
        buildConfig "private final static boolean DEFAULT = true;", \
                    "private final static String FOO = \"foo\";"
    }

    buildTypes {
        debug {
            packageNameSuffix = ".debug"

            buildConfig "private final static boolean DEBUG2 = false;"
        }
    }

    aaptOptions {
        noCompress "txt"
    }
    sourceSets {
          main {
              manifest {
                  srcFile 'AndroidManifest.xml'
              }
              java {
                  srcDir 'src'
              }
              res {
                  srcDir 'res'
              }
              assets {
                  srcDir 'assets'
              }
              resources {
                  srcDir 'src'
              }
          }
      }
}