I am starting my migration from Eclipse to Android Studio, and start playing with new projects on Studio.
My test project was working fine till I got some errors mes
So, just to let you know...
A few minutes after I posted my question, Google released an update to Android Studio (0.1.5) See link: https://plus.google.com/+AndroidDevelopers/posts/Y9vhvGaHCbh
Tor Norbye kindly answered my question in this community, and I am sharing here
So the workaround I quoted in the OP is no more mandatory.
Enabling again External build after upgrading Android Sudio let me see the real errors ( a library and some Gradle import that I fixed)
So, I consider the Android Studio upgrade as the best answer to this question...