Android Studio suddenly cannot resolve symbols

Question

Android Studio 0.4.2 was working fine and today I opened it and almost everything was red and the auto-completion had stopped working. I look at the imports and AS seems to

Answer 1

None of the things mentioned earlier here did actually work for me. But then I found this menu entry in the file menu Invalidate Caches/Restart which appears to have fixed the problem.

I don't really know what happened in the background but when Android Studio started up again the status bar said Indexing... for a minute or so which apparently did wonders.

For reference I'm using Android Studio 0.5.4.

Answer 2

try to change your build.gradle with these value:

android { compileSdkVersion 18 buildToolsVersion '21.0.1'

defaultConfig {
    minSdkVersion 18
    targetSdkVersion 18
}

Answer 3

Please check if you have a project path which has special characters like ! (exclamation mark).

In a similar problem that I experienced, this was the root cause - since many Java applications seem not to tolerate such special characters (For e.g. doing a 'gradlew clean' from the terminal would fail and throw a RunTimeException.). None of the other solutions posted online had helped me. But, once I had removed the ! from the path and did a clean build, Android Studio magically worked.

Answer 4

I had a much stranger solution. In case anyone runs into this, it's worth double checking your gradle file. It turns out that as I was cloning this git and gradle was runnning, it deleted one line from my build.gradle (app) file.

dependencies {
     provided files(providedFiles)

Obviously the problem here was to just add it back and re-sync with gradle.

Answer 5

Got the same problem today. Fixed it by changing the jdk location in the project structure from \java\jdk1.7.0_05 to \java\jdk1.7.0_25 (which I didn´t know existed until now).

I´m using Android Studio 0.8.6.

Answer 6

None of these solutions worked for me. I had to uninstall Android Studio all together, then remove all Android Studio related files (user files), then reinstall it again.