Android studio - Failed to find target android-18

Question

I have a problem with Android Studio 0.2.3.

When I run my project the build stops and appears message that says:

Gradle: Execution failed for

Answer 1

Check the local.properties file in your Studio Project. Chances are that the property sdk.dir points to the wrong folder if you had set/configured a previous android sdk from pre-studio era. This was the solution in my case.