Android Studio build fails with “Task '' not found in root project 'MyProject'.”

Question

I get this error when trying to build my project after changing laptop and updating to Android Studio version 0.8.2.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exc

Answer 1

Apparently this error has multiple causes. Here's what fixed it for me.

I was running the build command like this:

./gradlew :testapp: build

Running it without the space fixed the issue:

./gradlew :testapp:build