With 0.4.3 Android Studio, error: “Gradle project sync failed. Basic functionality (e.g. editing, debugging) will not work properly”

Question

I have noticed that several people are having issues after upgrading to Android Studio 0.4.3 (problem with 0.4.2 also I believe). My error and debug steps so far are as foll

Answer 1

Go to File > Settings > Gradle you will end up with this screen for setting up your gradle :

Also make sure you have Google Repository in your Android SDK directory which will be located at :

$SDK_DIR\extras\google\m2repository\com\google\android\gms\play-services\3.1.36

If not do install it from SDK Manager > Extras > Google Repository first.

EDIT :

All your build.gradle(If you are using root level build.gradle to define android gradle plugin version, check in that only) must point to 0.8 version(latest as of now) of android gradle plugin

 dependencies {
     classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.8.+'
 }

UPDATED :

Mapping is :

 | Android Gradle Plugin |  Gradle Version |
       0.7.+                     1.9
       0.8.+                     1.10