Android Studio, Gradle, CastVideos-android simple app error: "Configuration with name 'default' not found"

Question

I have downloaded this application from here https://github.com/googlecast/CastVideos-android.

But the message i see is "Gradle project sync failed. Basic functionality (e.g. editing, debugging) will not work properly" as shown in snapshot below.

I choose to Gradle Settings "Use default gradle wrapper (recommended)".

Build error: Gradle 'CastVideos-android-master' project refresh failed: Configuration with name 'default' not found. Gradle settings

Android Studio 0.4.6

How solve this problem?

Answer 1

At this point, Android Studio has already evolved to 0.5.9. Yippy!

To answer your question though, I ran into the same problem at first, but was able to quickly fix it when going over the documentation and seeing that the CastCompanionLibrary-android file is a dependency for this app. You can download here at https://github.com/googlecast/CastCompanionLibrary-android

If you download and unzip it yourself, you need to make sure the name matches what you refer to in the build.gradle file, for example:

I used: compile project(':..:CastCompanionLibrary')

So I took off the "android-master" part of the name and note I have it at the same directory level as the project, similar to what rciovati refers to.

Then in settings.gradle, same thing: include '..:CastCompanionLibrary'

Be sure the name is consistent.

That should clear this issue up. Seems like you figured it out, but to help others, figured I'd note these nuances of solving this.

Answer 2

Not sure if this should be an answer or a comment but, is your project structured in this way?

File Structure

|-- CastVideos-android
|   +-- build.gradle
|-- CastCompanionLibrary
|   +-- build.gradle