Gradle build errors with Android Studio

Question

When I try to build my project in Android Studio I get the following error, using the gradle plugin provided with the download (v 1.6):

The specified Gradle in

Answer 1

I also had this problem which can indeed be worked around with Mark's suggestion of using ./gradlew assemble.

However, this does not help you run Make Project from within Android Studio.

To do that, I had to go to Preferences / Gradle / Use local gradle distribution

and select any random (but NOT gradle) folder inside the project folder.

You might notice that this is marked as an invalid location, but you can ignore that, it seems...

Not a great solution, but it works.