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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Networking Making an HTTP GET Request with OkHttp

Ashwini Tiwari
Ashwini Tiwari
2,410 Points
Posted by Ashwini Tiwari
Ashwini Tiwari
2,410 Points

Gradle build failure.

Gradle build failed with Error:Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugAidl'. > aidl is missing. on Android Studio version: 1.2.1.1

1 Answer

Mahmoud Yousif
Mahmoud Yousif
5,053 Points

I also had this error. I updated a couple things in the SDK manager, changed a couple things in the build.gradle file, and restarted AS a bunch of times. Eventually, it work but I have no idea why. I searched on stack overflow and managed to get this answer:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30506406/aidl-is-missing-android-studio

Good Luck!

Ashwini Tiwari
Ashwini Tiwari
2,410 Points
Ashwini Tiwari
Ashwini Tiwari
2,410 Points

Thanks Mahmoud. finally i got a successful build. i guess there was a problem with the Build tools version which i was using.