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Android

Posted by Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard
7,428 Points

Installed android studio for the first time, and gradle is giving aidl error

At the bottom of the screen under "Gradle Build" I am getting this error:

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:compileDebugAidl'.
> aidl is missing

Looking around online I'm not able to see anything. I haven't done anything except install the java SDK, android studio, and then create a project.

1 Answer

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Hello,

It sounds like you still might need to install either a part of, or the entire Android SDK. In the most recent version of Android Studio, can you go to Tools, Android, SDK Manager, and make sure the Android Tools, Andrpid Build Tools, Android Platform Tools, as well as one API level. For more information, please refer to [this] page.

Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard
7,428 Points

thanks. I first tried just uninstalling and reinstalling and that seems to have worked.