After update to Android Studio 2.2 / gradle plugin 2.2.0: “could not get unknown property 'assembleRelease'”

Question

After updating Android Studio to version 2.2 and the Gradle-plugin to 2.2.0, I get following error:

Answer 1

you can do this:

task copyApk(dependsOn: "assembleRelease") << {
    file('build/outputs/apk/app-release.apk').renameTo("AppName-1.0.0-${project.ext.androidVersionCode}.apk")
}