Android Studio: Gradle build fails — Execution failed for task ':compileDebugAidl'

Question

After changes to source and building with gradle in Android Studio (I/O preview) AI - 130.677228 the build fails with the following error:

Gradle: 
FAILURE: Buil         


        

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue "Failed to execute the task: compileDebugaidl aidl/debug/".

I saw further in Gradle Console for the specifics and it read as below:

Failed to capture snapshot of output files for task 'prepareComAndroidSupportAppcompatV72103Library' during up-to-date check.

Could not remove entry '/Users/..../.../.../..../build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.android.support/appcompat-v7/21.0.3' from cache outputFileStates.bin (/Users/..../..../..../.gradle/2.2.1/taskArtifacts/outputFileStates.bin).

I resolved it by deleting the outputFileStates.bin file from the terminal and allowed Gradle to recreate it.

Hope it helps somebody.