Android Studio Stuck at Gradle Download on create new project

Question

I have installed the new Android Studio. Everything was working fine but when I try to create a new project it gets stuck at downloading Gradle

Answer 1

Note : My answer seems quite long but its only 2 steps away if you want a correct way to configure with current project.

I found what was the actual problem. Actually, each android project comes with its own version of gradle wrapper.

have a look at dir

projectname/gradle/wrapper

here the properties file says the version of gradle that this project uses:

#Mon Sep 08 13:53:18 PDT 2014
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.7-all.zip

So the issue is if you dont have that version of gradle then it will download that version for you. For instance have a look at this dir, where it downloaded gradle versions for me

/home/myusername/.gradle/wrapper/dists

looks like

Here it will try to download version of gradle if you dont have. If you are comfortable with downloading other version of gradle then you can wait till it completes else

Workaround will be: 1. if project is on git clone it first.

2. goto your projectdir/gradle/wrapper

3.change version of distributionUrl to version that you already have : eg: for 2.2.1-all

url will be

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.2.1-all.zip

4.copy gradle-wrapper.jar to your projectdir/gradle/wrapper from

.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-2.1.1-all/4ryh47z6pv2tj9n03uiw8pzc6/gradle-2.2.1/lib/gradle-wrapper.jar(dont forget to rename gradle-wrapper2.2.1.jar to gradle-wrapper.jar)

5. now import your project in studio.. and it works.