How to fix ERROR: No signature of method: build_ap86oam3dut3pxce3x49rdtma.android()?

Question

ERROR: No signature of method: build_ap86oam3dut3pxce3x49rdtma.android() is applicable for argument types: (build_ap86oam3dut3pxce3x49rdtma$_run_closure1) values: [build_ap86oam

Answer 1

I'm new to Android but i got a message similar to yours today when i try to use a different version (not the suggested ones) of the Gradle plugin and gradle engine on Android Studio 4.1 canary.

When I had on my App build.gradle these lines:

task wrapper(type: Wrapper){
    gradleVersion = '5.6.4'
}

and on my build.gradle for the module this line

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.6.3' 

This was the message i got with previous settings:

A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
> No signature of method: build_5dcjpn4h9nkpym0yszxs5w2uh.android() is applicable for argument types: (build_5dcjpn4h9nkpym0yszxs5w2uh$_run_closure1) values: [build_5dcjpn4h9nkpym0yszxs5w2uh$_run_closure1@2e4515b3]

The way i found to solve this error was changing version for the gradle plugin on my build.gradle for the module like this

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.0' 

I hope this could help you. Happy coding!

Answer 2

Old issue but worth noting you might need to follow the migration guide here if you see this issue:

https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/view-binding/migration

For me, removing the line apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions' and adding view binding as below resolved the issue:

buildFeatures {
    viewBinding true
}

Answer 3

I had a similar issue because I had added a trailing comma , in defaultConfig in android/app/build.gradle

Answer 4

I was getting a similar error because the versionCode was being taken from a properties file, but the versionCode needs to be an integer and not a string, so toInteger() was needed.

Nice logs, android.

Answer 5

I had the same error message until I commented out everything in the android plugin except the compile sdk version, trying to get back to a successful build config.

android {
    compileSdkVersion 23
/*
    ...
*/
}

Then, I started uncommenting things until I narrowed the problem down to using the following incorrectly.

ProductFlavors {
  ...
}

I'm not sure if you're using the same block, but at the moment, I'm leaving it commented out because I'm not sure it's needed. Once I got rid of it though, I was receiving other errors about sdk root dir location, so I was able to fix those.

I hope this helps!

Answer 6

If you are using kotlin version 1.4.21 or newer, kotlin-android-extension is deprecated. So if you removing the plugin you also have to remove the android experimental extension block. In my case, I had to remove these pieces of code.

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'


androidExtensions {
    experimental = true
}