I face this problem too when making new project from android studio.
I’ve been able to resolve this by downgrading buildToolsVersion in app gradle setting:
change {module-name}/build.gradle line
buildToolsVersion “24.0.0 rc1”
to
buildToolsVersion “23.0.3”
@Edit:
In Android Studio 2.1 Go to File-> Project Structure->App -> Build Tool Version. Change it to 23.0.3
Do the method above, only when you are using java version 7 and for some reason do not want to upgrade to java 8 yet.
Hope this helps