Cannot create new activity in android studio

Question

I keep getting an IllegalStateException error in the event log while creating new activity in android studio:

11:27:15 InvalidReferenceException         


        

Answer 1

removing the build folder redirect code in the gradle file is a workaround.

allprojects {

    //String osName = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();
    //if (osName.contains("windows")) {
    //    buildDir = "C:/tmp/${rootProject.name}/${project.name}"
    //}
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
}

Found it here https://github.com/udacity/ud851-Exercises/issues/67