Gradle build errors with Android Studio

Question

When I try to build my project in Android Studio I get the following error, using the gradle plugin provided with the download (v 1.6):

The specified Gradle in

Answer 1

I had a similar problem and I believe that it was caused by having multiple versions of gradle on my machine. The solution I found was to use the script that Android Studio creates in your project folder (either gradlew (MacOs/Unix) or gradlew.bat (Windows)):

./gradlew assemble

This causes the correct version of gradle to be run - i.e. the version that was shipped with Android Studio.

I haven't tried creating a project within Eclipse, so I'm not sure if these scripts are created when creating your project in that way.