Build error with Android Studio 3.0 Canary 4

Question

I am currently in the process of developing an Instant app, for which I have restructured my monolithic app into feature modules. Everything was up and running till Android Studio canary 3, but after an update to Android Studio Canary 4 my project fails to build with the following error:

A problem was found with the configuration of task ':minimoBase:dataBindingExportBuildInfoDebugAndroidTest'.

> Directory '/Users/nayak.vishal/projectData/minimo_instant_app_project/putica-client-android-
native/minimoBase/build/intermediates/data-binding-info/androidTest/debug' 
specified for property 'xmlOutFolder' does not exist.

Answer 1

The following procedure worked as a workaround for this issue:

Execute the following build commands on the gradle command line

1) gradlew clean

2) gradlew :appModule:assembleDebug

• here appModule is the name of the app module for building the installable apk
• the build is successful and the debug apk generated in the output folder can be installed successfully

3) gradlew :instantAppModule:assembleDebug

• here instantAppModule is the name of the instant app module
• the build is successful and the instant app apks can be installed and launched via deep link

Once the above command line builds are successful, building via Android Studio Canary 4 also stops throwing the build error.