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!

Make sure you are using the kotlin android plugin instead of the kotlin jvm plugin.

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android' // NOT kotlin-jvm

Best thing you can do is comment parts of your build.gradle file related to the issue until you get a good build and them uncomment 1 by 1 until you find the problem. I had the same error and it was related with a typo in one of the app build.gradle blocks. I was using:

android {
    ...
    buildFeature {
        ...
    }
}

instead of

android {
    ...
    buildFeatures {
        ...
    }
}

Good luck!

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
}

I was checking a very old project from Github and found the solution by matching the app level build.gradle file with my current project, hence the solution is to replace

runProguard false

with

minifyEnabled false

It must've been deprecated and removed in a later build which caused a similar issue - No signature of method: build_6f958jjxpxn7lllu9wu5brezx.android()

I got this problem after adding

kapt {
    // etc
}

because I hadn't added:

apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

For me the reason was misspelling the native libs command for gradle, as of version updates and old tutorials.

    externalNativeBuild {
        ndkBuild {
            path 'Android.mk'
        }
    }

... 
// But i had:  
    externalNativeBuild {
        ndk {
            path 'Android.mk'
        }
    }

But as the number of answer indicate, there are several possibilites for this issue.
Most probably after some version updates some gradle functions are no longer available.

Thanks for mentioning to just comment things and test, for me it was:

kapt {
    useBuildCache = true
}

Removed it, everything was building again. Happened after updating Kotlin version.

In my case, the error cause is below

compilpepeeSdkVersion

rather than

compileSdkVersion

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
}

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

in my case I needed to comment out this lines in gradle

androidExtensions{
    experimental = true
}

It is because there's syntax error in android{..} part of build.gradle You've used implementationSdkVersion which should ideally be compileSdkVersion. Error in variable names in android{..} leads to such errors.

TLDR;

Replace implementationSdkVersion with compileSdkVersion

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.

I added debug under buildTypes in the gradle file and missed a comma after "API_URL":

not working:

buildTypes {
    ...
    debug {
        buildConfigField "String", "API_URL" "\"http://myapi.com/\""
    }
}

working:

buildTypes {
    ...
    debug {
        buildConfigField "String", "API_URL", "\"http://myapi.com/\""
    }
}

good luck!

I had this exact same issue. It is a nasty one.

I followed the answer first here Deprecated Gradle features not compatible and ran in the terminal cd android && ./gradlew clean && ./gradlew :app:bundleRelease

the gradlew command gave more detialed feedback, and turned out my Java and JDK were 32bit instead of 64 and also outdated...

This resulted in further errors, but could resolve them step by step: Invalid initial heap size -Xms4096M Could not find tools.jar. Please check that C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_151 contains a valid JDK installation

Try to comment this in your app level build.gradle file

openOptions {
    disable 'InvalidPackage'
}

i was trying to add parcelable plugin in my project. this was the same error in my case too. Because, JetBrains extracted the Parcelize from Kotlin Android Extensions to a new plugin, kotlin-parcelize

So, If you want to add easy parcelable in kotlin then follow these steps:

First you will need to add kotlin-parcelize plugin to your module

plugins { .. id 'kotlin-parcelize' }

Then change your old import statement from

import kotlinx.android.parcel.Parcelize

to

import kotlinx.parcelize.Parcelize

Example:

import kotlinx.parcelize.Parcelize

import android.os.Parcelable

@Parcelize class User(

val name: String, val age: Int

): Parcelable

Most of the time its missing dependencies, if you are using "dagger/Hilt"

• Ensure its added in project level build.graddle

   dependencies {
       // ....
        classpath "com.google.dagger:hilt-android-gradle-plugin:$hilt_version"
    
    }

• add hilt plugin in the app level build.graddle

plugins {
 //....
    id 'dagger.hilt.android.plugin'
}

• add complete hilt and dagger dependencies

   //hilt

    implementation "com.google.dagger:hilt-android:$hilt_version"

    // Dagger Core 
    implementation "com.google.dagger:dagger:2.28"
    kapt "com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:2.28"

    // Dagger Android
    api 'com.google.dagger:dagger-android:2.35.1'
    api 'com.google.dagger:dagger-android-support:2.31'
    kapt 'com.google.dagger:dagger-android-processor:2.31'

//Dagger - Hilt
    implementation "com.google.dagger:hilt-android:2.32-alpha"
    kapt "com.google.dagger:hilt-android-compiler:2.28-alpha"

This issue is usually related to some change on build.gradle file, for example in my case, was this line in the defaultConfig section on that file:

versionCode 1.1

I changed it to:

versionCode 2

and problem fixed.

For me, the problem was in this block

defaultConfig {
        applicationId "abc"
        minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
        targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion
        versionCode 12.1 **-> 13**
        versionName "3"
    }

The 'versionCode' mustn't be a decimal number

I have been struggling with the error after adding Flutter flavors. Apparently if you have flavor names which contain - it won't work.

e.g. Transformed names from test-preprod to test_preprod and it is now working.

I had a problem similar to @LalitFauzdar 's but with a different solution. A plugin that I'm using requires custom ProGuard rules for release builds, but adding a reference to the rules file in the app gradle file resulted in the error in question. Here is the offending line, commented-out:

buildTypes {
  release {
    signingConfig signingConfigs.release
    // proguardFiles 'proguard-rules.pro'
  }
}

For me it was useIR true inside kotlinOptions

I had this error when i added 2 product flavors to my build.gradle app module file with the following names:

productFlavors {
    normal-sv1 {
    ...
    }
    normal-sv2 {
    ...
    }
}

Found out that this error was because of the '-' int the middle of the flavors' names. When i used '_' instead of '-', like below, the error was gone.

productFlavors {
    normal_sv1 {
    ...
    }
    normal_sv2 {
    ...
    }
}

This is a syntax error somewhere in your gradle file inside the android {} closure. If you are someone having this same problem then the best solution to this problem is to comment out portions of code inside android {} and keep running gradle sync until you have a successful build. Then slowly add back commented out lines until you find the culprit.

For me, the problem was that the Gradle Plugin update assistant replaced this:

aaptOptions {
    noCompress "..."
}

With this:

androidResources {
        noCompress '...'
}

Undoing it, solved the build error. Of course this is just a workaround.

For me I had updated firebase-crashlytics-gradle from 2.5.2 to 2.7.1 in my project build.gradle and that caused the issue.

dependencies {
    [...]
    classpath "com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle:2.7.1
}

I removed an unnecessary firebaseCrashlytics configuration in my app module build.grade and then it worked again:

// TODO this entire block had to be deleted to fix the issue
firebaseCrashlytics {
    mappingFileUploadEnabled = false
}

I removed this code from my Gradle:

javaCompileOptions {
        annotationProcessorOptions {
            includeCompileClasspath true
        }
    }

I received this error while creating a new Jetpack Compose project. 'app' module's build.gradle was cracking up.

Removing packagingOptions did the trick for me ->

packagingOptions {
        
        resources {
            excludes += '/META-INF/{AL2.0,LGPL2.1}'
        }
        
    }
}

In Android Studio 2021.1.1 Canary 12, I removed

plugins{
   ...
   id 'kotlin-android-extensions'
}

But forgot to remove this from

android{
    androidExtensions {
            experimental = true
        }
}

after removing androidExtension block my problem solved

This problem is common in Flutter 2.8

1. Delete Folder with all sub Folder of C:\Users\LENOVO\.gradle

2. Go File menu > Setting (Ctrl+Alt+S) Go Appearance & Behaviour > System Setting > Android SDK > SDK Tool Tab and then uncheck Android SDK Build-Tool press OK Button 3)Run Project (Shift+F10) in Andriod Studio it will Download all required files from the internet and your issue resolve

   

After if the issue is Not resolved then Second Step is:

4. Go > android\app\build.gradle in your project Please Add > minSdkVersion 19 or 20 // Remove it because, 16 is by default minSdkVersion in flutter 2.8 //minSdkVersion flutter.minSdkVersion
5. add multiDexEnabled true if file size increase from limits

Remove this line, it will work.

includeCompileClasspath true

Today I got this error when I was making signed apk and I made a mistake while doing setup for playstore, In android/app/build.gradle

signingConfigs{
debug{
 .....
 .....
}
release {....}  // I added the release config outside the signing config
}

Correct-way-todo-just-for-ref

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!

There's no unique solution for this error, except that it's a syntax error inside build.gradle file.

I had the same problem with a vanilla just-created new project in Android Studio Bumblebee (2021.1):

The auto-generated build.gradle had this in it:

buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled false
        proguardFiles
            getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
}

Notice that proguardFiles "function call"'s parameters are on a separate line, this is not valid Groovy code.

In my case I need to remove following in app/build.gradle:

packagingOptions {
        jniLibs {
            pickFirsts += ['lib/armeabi-v7a/libc++_shared.so', 'lib/arm64-v8a/libc++_shared.so', 'lib/x86/libc++_shared.so', 'lib/x86_64/libc++_shared.so']
        }
    }

I had mispelled signingConfig as signingConfigs

So it is actually signingConfig signingConfigs.{yourVariantName}

And NOT signingConfigs signingConfigs.{yourVariantName}