Error running android: Gradle project sync failed. Please fix your project and try again

Question

Android Studio (1.2 RC0) keeps telling me Error running android: Gradle project sync failed. Please fix your project and try again. How can I find out what th

Answer 1

I had the exact same error message

Error running android: Gradle project sync failed. Please fix your project and try again

, but if none of the above fixes your error, then I would highly suggest for you to check your syntax inside the AndroidManifest.xml file.

That fixed if for me. I don't understand why the error-message is so misleading, since it had nothing to do with the build gradle directly.

Please also see this SO-answer here, which has lead many of us in the right direction.