Error:Could not find property 'assembleDebug' on project ':app'

Question

I am using \'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.0-alpha6\' and Android Studio 2.2 Preview 6. The build runs perfectly fine on Gradle 2.1.0, but to enable instan

Answer 1

1. find which task is depending on assembleDebug task
2. changing the following did the trick for me at least:

from:

task findbugs(type: FindBugs, dependsOn: assembleDebug)

to:

task findbugs(type: FindBugs, dependsOn: "assembleDebug")

so just surrounding the task with quotes was enough.