Gradle Sync failed could not find constraint-layout:1.0.0-alpha2

Question

Problem :

Error:Could not find com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.0-alpha2.
Required by:
myapp:app:unspecified
         


        

Answer 1

For me it was a completely different issue. When I installed constraint dependancy in SDK tools, the tools somehow wrote them into the wrong directory. That is

/home/${USER}/Android/Sdk/extras/+m2repository+/com/.../constraint

instead of

/home/${USER}/Android/Sdk/extras/+android+/+m2repository+/com/.../constraint

Remedy:

Just copy the 1.0.0-alpha* directories into the latter path