Cause: error in opening zip file (android-studio)

Question

When I create a new project I finish the steps and click on "finish" and wait for the project to open. But instead I see an error:

I can't solve this problem.

Answer 1

My Installation & problem details

I had this issue after importing a github project into Android Studio using the File > Import Project option. Network was fine and I had other Android Studio projects working properly so this was not a installation issue. I run Android Studio (Preview) 0.5.4

The solution that worked for me

I had the luxury of comparing differences with working projects. That is how I discovered the error was due to the distributionUrl property in the gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file.

In the failing project this was set like distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.10-all.zip. While in the working project this was distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.11-all.zip. Note the difference in the version.

Updating this distributionUrl in gradle-wrapper.properties to this 1.11 link solved the issue for me.

About the Network

I have this issue on a very restricted network and I can see that the gradle-1.10 link does point to a zip file. The network issue sounds very plausible to. Probably I already have the 1.11 zip downloaded while on another network. I's less likely (though not impossible) that the 1.10 zip is broken.

Answer 2

Android Studio error installing Gradle

Your situation may be like this one. Just redownload the right gradle-1.x.zip, and replace the bad one on ~/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-1.x/[hash code]/ and the restart the android-studio

Note: ~/.gradle/ is where the directory may be found on unixoid operating systems (e.g. Linux, OS X, ...). On Windows it's typically at C:/Users/[NAME]/.gradle/.

Answer 3

You can erase the existing gradle zip file, then download the appropriate one from Link https://gradle.org/releases/, and copy the new one (basically replace the existing one, mine was cc 5 MB, with new one cc 80 MB). Then reload Studio, and wait.