Android Gradle cannot find symbol class Gson
So i added gson-2.2.4.jar to the libs dir (I'm using android studio). My project couldn't find the gson stuff so I added it as a library dependency to my module in the "Project Structure". When I try to run the project, the build is failing with the following errors: Error:(12, 23) Gradle: package com.google.gson does not exist Error:(37, 3) Gradle: cannot find symbol class Gson Error:(37, 19) Gradle: cannot find symbol class Gson Why can't I get this working? I read elsewhere that gradle is supposed to handle everything automatically if it's put in the lib dir. Adding it as a dependency in