Android Studio: Gradle build fails -- Execution failed for task ':compileDebugAidl'

Question

After changes to source and building with gradle in Android Studio (I/O preview) AI - 130.677228 the build fails with the following error:

Gradle: 
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':compileDebugAidl'.
> No signature of method: com.android.ide.common.internal.WaitableExecutor.waitForTasks() is applicable for argument types: () values: []
  Possible solutions: waitForAllTasks()
* Try:
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Could not execute build using Gradle distribution 'http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip'.

The second time running a build the build will succeed.

Using a gradle wrapper with version 1.6

This really sucks because it does a long build (non-incremental) after it fails the first time.

Is there a way to not have this failure?

EDIT to include build.gradle

buildscript {

    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.4'
    }
}
apply plugin: 'android'

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '1.6'
}

dependencies {

    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion "Google Inc.:Google APIs:17"
    buildToolsVersion "17"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 11
        targetSdkVersion 17
    }
    sourceSets {
        main {
            manifest.srcFile 'AndroidManifest.xml'
            java.srcDirs = ['src']
            resources.srcDirs = ['src']
            aidl.srcDirs = ['src']
            renderscript.srcDirs = ['src']
            res.srcDirs = ['res']
            assets.srcDirs = ['assets']
        }

        instrumentTest.setRoot('tests')
    }
}

Link to issue on Google Code: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=56158

Answer 1

I solved this issue by setting buildToolsVersion in my build.gradle file to match the latest version of the Android SDK Build-tools in the SDK manager.

In my case, I have the Android SDK Build-tools version 22.0.1 installed, so I set buildToolsVersion accordingly:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 22
    buildToolsVersion "22.0.1"
...

After making that change, my app builds uneventfully.

Answer 2

I'm not sure how this is possible. It looks like you have a mismatch between the Gradle plugin itself and its dependencies that provides the WaitableExecutor class.

However you mention Gradle 1.5 and this is a problem.

The plugin version 0.3 was compatible with Gradle 1.3-1.4 The new version release last week, 0.4 is compatible with Gradle 1.6+

Make sure you use 0.4 and the new Gradle version.

Answer 3

I was facing the same issue "Failed to execute the task: compileDebugaidl aidl/debug/".

I saw further in Gradle Console for the specifics and it read as below:

Failed to capture snapshot of output files for task 'prepareComAndroidSupportAppcompatV72103Library' during up-to-date check.

Could not remove entry '/Users/..../.../.../..../build/intermediates/exploded-aar/com.android.support/appcompat-v7/21.0.3' from cache outputFileStates.bin (/Users/..../..../..../.gradle/2.2.1/taskArtifacts/outputFileStates.bin).

I resolved it by deleting the outputFileStates.bin file from the terminal and allowed Gradle to recreate it.

Hope it helps somebody.