Gradle error in Android Studio 0.4.3

Question

I found references to this with an older version, but not the most recent. I updated Android Studio to 0.4.3 and created a new project. The build fails immediately with the belo

Answer 1

You need to make sure you're using the correct version of the Android Gradle plugin. For Android Studio 0.4.3 it's the 0.8.X series. Specify it in build.gradle as:

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

This may be in the top-level build.gradle or the one in your module; the location where we put this has changed in projects newly created in later versions of Android Studio.