Gradle sync failed: Access is denied

Question

I have installed Android studio and i have created the new project but it is giving me the error:

Gradle \'MyApplication2\' project refresh failed
Gradle sy         


        

Answer 1

I have had a similar issue recently when the gradle plugin release was updated to 5.1.1. which caused an error message "apollo\generatedIR\debug (Access is denied)".

In order to fix this I had to revert back to the previous gradle version which was 3.3.2 and I had to make sure that the zip file that is downloaded when the project syncs matched the 3.3.2 version.

Here is where to check the versions of the gradle builds: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin

The changes I made where:

In the gradle (project) file change the classpath plugin to the previous version:

    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.2'

Then in the gradle-wrapper.properties file change the distributionUrl to match the required gradle version.

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10.1-all.zip

Then resync your project. If it doesn't work double check your gradle files by going to the C:Users//.gradle/wrapper/dists folder and it should match the version on the web page above.