Error while creating new Activity

Question

I am trying to create a new Activity, but the following error comes up (bottom of image)

InvalidReferenceException: Error executing FreeMarker templa

Answer 1

From the following link : Cannot create empty activity, in Android Studio 2.2.3 , some people had the same kind of problem :

ERROR - llij.ide.plugins.PluginManager - com.android.tools.idea.templates.FreemarkerUtils$TemplateProcessingException: freemarker.core.InvalidReferenceException: The following has evaluated to null or missing: ==> manifestDir [in template "root://activities/common/common_globals.xml.ftl" at line 26, column 39]

The problem was related to a tmp folder created on the C drive

When I first installed Android SDK, I installed it to the C drive and did some exercises inside ud851-Exercises-student there. Then, because I ran out of space on the C drive, I uninstalled it from C and installed it to D. Maybe I accidentally opened one of those projects and that cause the Android Studio to create the tmp folder in C.

Deleting the C:\tmp folder solved the problem

I was having the same issue...deleting tmp folder helped.

Some more information about the root cause :

I realized this issue is because of the "buildDir" path in build.gradle file in Udacity projects. See screen shot.