OK, I found why I got this behaviour in android studio 4.2. It is intended behaviour. I found the answer in this post: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/185420705. Gradle task list is large and slow to populate in Android projects. This feature by default is disabled for performance reasons. You can re-enable it in: Settings | Experimental | Do … Read more
The error is clear Gradle was unable to find the library that you declared Possible fixes Location Project -> build.gradle //update it dependencies { classpath “org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.4.30” } Edited kotlin has released stable version of version 1.5.0 last night you can use this version to stay up-to-date dependencies { classpath “org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.5.0” }
The main root cause of that issue is lack of free space on your disk
First of all, I faced this issue in Android Studio 4.2.2 and you do not need to downgrade the SDK build tool from 31 to 30 or change compile SDK version. The main problem is the two files missing in SDK build tool 31 that are: dx.bat dx.jar The solution is that these files are … Read more