Gradle gets stuck at either 'build' or 'assembleDebug' when using the 64bit or 32bit version of Android Studio

Question

The issue I\'ve had over the past few months is that Android Studio would often get stuck on Gradle: build, as seen here. Android Studio itself would stay respo

Answer 1

My problem was that the Android Sdk executables were missing the executable bit. You can check some of your binaries like /Sdk/build-tools//aapt to see if they have permission to execute. If not you can solve it by running this on the Sdk folder

chmod -R +x ./