Stuck with Gradle Build Running

Question

While trying to build my Application on Android Studio 2.1 (On Ubuntu 16.04), it gets stuck on the below note:

Executing tasks: [:app:generateDebugSources,          


        

Answer 1

Adding more to @SkyWalker's answer:

Also check if you have the latest version of gradle. Updating gradle plug-in to the latest version could help.

Note: I have a similar setup(Android Studio 2.1 on Ubuntu 16.04), and I had a similar problem. Updating gradle to the latest version solved the problem for me.