After Upgrade to Android Studio 2.3 : transformNativeLibsWithStripDebugSymbolFor fails

Question

I\'ve just upgraded to Android Studio 2.3, which requires all build.gradle\'s use a minimum buildToolsVersion of 25.0.0

the following setti

Answer 1

I have fixed it by:

1) within build.gradle (app) downgrade to using buildToolsVersion '23.0.3'

2) within build.gradle (project) downgrade to classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.2'

3) within gradle-wrapper.properties downgrade to gradle 2.10 distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.10-all.zip

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UPDATE June 7th, this also worked:

1) updated to latest Android Studio 2.3.2

2) in A.S., click File -> Project Structure -> make a note of the directory path for "Android NDK location" and open the folder. Step out into the /sdk/ folder and delete the "ndk-bundle" folder. This takes a bit of time because of all the files.

3) back in A.S., remove the "Android NDK location" path -> click OK

4) rebuild the project and deploy without the annoying build error.

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UPDATE July 11th: more possible fixes ...

1) update to preview Android Studio 2.4

2) set compileVersion and TargetSdkVersion to 25

Answer 2

With the same basic issue transformNativeLibsWithStripDebugSymbolFor<flavor><type?Debug:Release>fails

Ending up reinstalling Android Studio, the SDK, and the NDK, and then was finally able to rebuild.