Cannot create new activity in android studio

Question

I keep getting an IllegalStateException error in the event log while creating new activity in android studio:

11:27:15 InvalidReferenceException: Error executing FreeMarker template: The following has evaluated to null or missing:
==> srcDir  [in template "root://activities/common/common_globals.xml.ftl" at line 41, column 34]

Tip: If the failing expression is known to be legally null/missing, either specify a default value with myOptionalVar!myDefault, or use when-presentwhen-missing. (These only cover the last step of the expression; to cover the whole expression, use parenthessis: (myOptionVar.foo)!myDefault, (myOptionVar.foo)??

Answer 1

Method 1:Just Remove the following code from your app level build.gradle

debug {
            storeFile file('/Users/Razz/Documents/keys/keystore.jks')
            storePassword 'ABC@123'
            keyAlias 'key0'
            keyPassword 'ABC@123'
      }

Method 2: In case, if there are two packages together (kotlin and java)

I was facing the same problem as whenever I create new activity form the activity templates provided by the android studio. Nothing was happening even after Gradle sync completes successfull.

After a long item, I figure out that, java directory name inside my project changed into kotlin somehow. And I supposed Android Studio looking for the java package to create new Activity.

Then, to solve this issue, I follow the below steps:

1. Closed Android Studio
2. Went to the project location up to java directory as ../ProjectName/app/src/main/
3. In this main directory, I had the kotlin directory instead of java.
   So, I just renamed it to java.
4. Then opened the project with Android Studio, and that's all.
5. I created new activity it easily created one as it works before.

Answer 2

I experienced to same issue 2 day ago and i solve it by update the below text. Check to gradle.build app and module to newer versions.

classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.4'