Android studio with experimental gradle 0.2.0

Question

I am trying to setup a basic ndk build with the latest version of android studio at this moment. Trying to follow this tutorial

This is my gradle-w

Answer 1

There's a tutorial? Oh, that. Where are the links?

The current version is 0.2.0.

or dates?

I googled every one of the missing files individually (maybe 3 dozen!) after adding:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle-experimental:0.2.1'

I tried the alpha version too but I failed finding some of its dependencies altogether.

First I get a couple of dependencies I can be bothered chasing down:

> Error:Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle-experimental:0.2.1.
Searched in the following locations:
file:/C:/Program Files/Android/Android Studio/gradle/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/gradle-experimental/0.2.1/gradle-experimental-0.2.1.pom
file:/C:/Program Files/Android/Android Studio/gradle/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/gradle-experimental/0.2.1/gradle-experimental-0.2.1.jar

Once each of these was added to the given path seven more would sprout up in its place. If someone could post how to automatically update these (they still aren't in the latest 1.4RC1 Android Studio) it would be very useful. I got most of the stuff from maven, eg http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.android.tools.lint/lint-checks/24.3.1

I got all the files to shut up Gradle's whining and you know what it said?

     Error:(34, 1) A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
> Error: NDK integration is deprecated in the current plugin.  Consider trying the new experimental plugin.  For details, see http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/gradle-experimental.  Set "android.useDeprecatedNdk=true" in gradle.properties to continue using the current NDK integration.

Which was exactly the error that led me to migrate to experimental and no better than the stock 1.3.0 that ships with AS (though it was defaulting to 1.2.3).

Why did I bother? I want to debug NDK and couldn't see what else I wasn't doing apart from not using an experimental build.

This goose chase was just a big waste of time. I'm back to using

android.useDeprecatedNdk=true

No doubt I can fix it somewhere else but just a warning to others chasing experimental dependencies; they are unicorns.