Android Studio and Gradle build error

Question

I\'ve been using the new preview of android studio and really like it. But recently my project won\'t build. I get the following error:

Gradle: 
FAILURE: Bui         


        

Answer 1

Similar to @joe_deniable 's answer the thing I found with my own projects was that gradle would output that kind of error when there was a misconfiguration of my system.

I discovered that by running gradlew installDebug or similar command from the terminal I got better output as to what the real problem was.

e.g. initially it turns out my JAVA_HOME was not setup correctly. Then I discovered it encountered errors because I didn't have a package space setup correctly. Etc.