android studio 3.0 stuck at "building gradle project info"

Question

Today I was going to make a new project in Android Studio. The Android Studio on my computer is updated to 3.0. When I was creating a new project and finished the procedure of the settings, the AS stuck at "Building Gradle Project info".

I have met this situation several times in AS 2.3.3, and I solved them by modifying the gradle distributionUrl. But this time, it doesn't work.

I hope someone can give me a hand. Thanks anyway!

Answer 1

Because downloading Gradle takes a lot of time when your network situation is not so good, you have to download it by yourself.

My solution is:

1. Download a new version of gradle, such as gradle-4.3-all.zip, etc., and put the file in your AS Gradle location (Mac: go to the Application folder and open the package of AS, and put the new gradle in the Gradle folder. PS: If your new gradle version folder is not found, then you can create it on your own.Windows: like the previous two answers);
2. Disconnect your Wifi or LAN;
3. Open Android Studio 3.0 as usual;
4. DO NOT OPEN YOUR PROJECT IMMEDIATELY, TURN TO THE PREFERENCE PART FIRST;
5. GO TO THE GRADLE PART, DO THE SETTINGS AND SWITCH THE OFFLINE MODE ON;
6. Open the project you want to open;
7. Let AS to index the file and modify the gradle.properties when it is still indexing.
8. Turn on you Wifi or LAN, and AS will download the missing file. ATTENTION: DO NOT MODIFY YOUR ANDROID MANIFEST OR OTHER FILES WHEN DOWNLOADING
9. Close AS and reopen the project. And everything will be fine. :-)

If you still stuck at "Building Gradle Project info", just redo all of these. Still not clear? Comment below.

Answer 2

Problem

AS 3.0 is trying to download a new version of gradle but it is taking too much time.

Solution

1. Make sure to close AS 3.0
2. Go to the folder: C:\Users\[username]\.gradle\wrapper\dists
3. Note the latest version of gradle present there (gradle-4.1-all in my case)
4. Go to http://downloads.gradle.org/distributions and download the zip archive for this exact version (gradle-4.1-all.zip in my case)
5. Copy the archive in this gradle sub-folder, something like : C:\Users\[username]\.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-4.1-all\c64ydeuardnfqctvr1gm30w53 ; delete the file with .part extension in this folder, it is the one AS 3.0 was trying to download.
6. Unzip the downloaded archive in this folder.
   • Create a copy of the present .lck file (0 KB) with the .ok extension (gradle-4.1-all.zip.ok in my case). I noticed that there are .ok files in other gradle version folders but I do not know if this is necessary.
7. Run AS 3.0, it should be fine now.