Could not find method jcenter() for arguments [] on repository container

Question

I\'m new to Gradle and bintray. I want to publish this project so it is readily available to Maven and SBT users. I am not the original author of this package; it appears to

Answer 1

It happened with me when I stopped the gradle downloading in between, to resolve this we have to delete the older gradle and update and sync

to delete use

task clean(type: Delete) {
delete rootProject.buildDir
}

to udpate, add this to your graddle-properties : distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-all.zip

And then sync

Answer 2

Just to summarize the discussion in comments:

Gradle added jcenter() shortcut in version 1.7. Any version prior to it will fail with this exception. You can still work with jcenter by adding it as a normal maven repo:

repositories {
    maven {
        url "https://jcenter.bintray.com"
    }
    ....
}

Answer 3

I had the same trouble. In my case, it was a newie mistake. Maybe it could be helpful for anyone. I reverted the code from the one I changed to the original one.

The code as I changed it:

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.2.71'
    repositories { google()  jcenter()
    }

The original code:

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.2.71'
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }

Answer 4

As silly as it sounds, make sure you have jcenter on it's own line. I copy pasted some code and ended up with jcenter not on it's own line.

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google {
            content {
                ...
            }
        }                  jcenter() // DERP
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
        maven { url 'https://maven.google.com/' } 
    }
}

Answer 5

Goto the Android project Tab, in explorer collapse Gradle Scripts.You will find a file called gradle-wrapper.properties .

Open the file and select all and paste the following code below:

distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip

Sync now

But before that You have to make changes in build.gradle (Project) file

Open the file select All and Copy into entire sheet the below code:

buildscript {

    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.2'
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.0.0'


        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        maven {url 'https://jitpack.io'}
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

Sync Now

Answer 6

got this error when building an android app on command-line with the gradle command

Try:

./gradlew

instead of

gradle