Android Studio suddenly cannot resolve symbols

Question

Android Studio 0.4.2 was working fine and today I opened it and almost everything was red and the auto-completion had stopped working. I look at the imports and AS seems to

Answer 1

Be aware that the name of files and specially folders can result in this error. For instance, if you have a folder "Helpers" and the package for files in this folder is "com.whatever.helpers" it won't result in any compilation error but will cause the Android studio fail to load the symbols in that folder. One typical reason for that is when you name a folder with first capital letter, commit it on Git and later change the folder name to all lower case. The Git system won't recognize the change resulting in a discrepancy between the local and remote repositories that only the new repository clones will be affect by.