buildTypes cannot be applied to groovy.lang.Closure

Question

I\'m getting this warning in my project gradle file:

Warning:(16, 5) \'buildTypes\' cannot be applied to \'(groovy.lang.Closure< com.android.build.

Answer 1

In my case my buildTypes section was above my productFlavors section. Interchanging their positions got rid of the warning:

BEFORE:

buildTypes {

        debug {
            minifyEnabled false
            shrinkResources false
            ...//etc
        }
 }

 productFlavors {
    demo {
        ...//etc
    }
 }

AFTER:

 productFlavors {
    demo {
        ...//etc
    }
 }    

 buildTypes {

        debug {
            minifyEnabled false
            shrinkResources false
            ...//etc
        }
 }

I am using Android Studio 2.1.2 with the following config at the top of my android section:

android {
    compileSdkVersion 24
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.3"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.xyz.abc"
        minSdkVersion 14
        targetSdkVersion 24
        //..etc