Android Studio hangs / Freezes when project build fails

Question

I am experiencing a very wired problem since this evening.

If I have any errors in my android project, and build is failed, then my Android studio gets frozen / stuck. I

Answer 1

This is how I solved the same problem:

• Go to your project directory using your terminal
• run ./gradlew (or gradlew.bat) assembleDebug
• Fix the problems reported by gradle
• Restart android studio and the problem is gone