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

Make sure you have the latest values in your gradle files. As of this writing:

• buildToolsVersion "21.1.2"

• dependencies { classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.1.0' }