How do I resolve a “'generateDebugSources' not found in project” error?

Question

I was trying to add a dependency to my application and I accidentally modified the wrong build.gradle file and now my application no longer builds correctly.

This is my

Answer 1

Chris Deligan got it partially right.

Basically, you need to resolve the gradle dependencies so that Android Studio can correctly recognize that a generateDebugSources task does indeed exist in your :app (For me it was the other way around - I needed Android Studio to recognize that generateDebugSources does not exist).

Doing an include ':app' did resolve the problem for me, but that's because gradle wasn't resolving the dependencies earlier properly for me. Doing an include ':app' and rebuilding the project helped because Studio rebuilt those dependencies properly because of it. (Oh and removing it helps as well)

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IN Brief -

Do something that re-generates the dependencies. Ways to do that are:

1. include :app - Add or remove this from your project gradle file and do a rebuild.
2. gradle init - Running this from the terminal helped.