Could not fetch model of type 'IdeaProject' using Gradle installation

Question

I've downloaded and installed Android Studio with all the required dependencies such as JDK 1.7 and Gradle 1.6. I am able to import the projects and modules quite comfortably in Studio, but when I try to create a new project I am getting errors like this:

Since this is the new born IDE I couldn't find much details on this, except for this and this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

After to pass much time trying to resolve this, i reached a solution :

Are you using "Windows Version" of AS ?

Please follow these steps :

1 - Install the last version of JDK with respective JAVA_HOME variable.

2 - Download and Install Gradle1.6 with respective GRADLE_HOME variable,

http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/userguide_single.html#installation.

2 - Delete these folders:

    C:\Users\youruser\.AndroidStudioPreview
    C:\Users\youruser\.android
    C:\Users\youruser\.gradle

3 - Reopen Android Studio

Now probably it will works

There are a lot of bugs in "Early Access Preview"....

Answer 2

The error dialog mentions Gradle 1.4

Android Studio requires the Gradle plugin 0.4 which requires Gradle 1.6

Answer 3

I tried the environment variable and folder location stuff suggested, also made sure I had the latest version of Gradle, but that made no improvement. Then I ran Android Studio using an admin account, at which point all the errors disappeared. If you are able to, I suggest you do the same. This was on a Windows 7 box.

Answer 4

For me, this problem was caused by my local.properties file showing a different path to the Android SDK. I do development on both Mac OS X and Windows and the properties file was showing my Mac OS X SDK path. Turns out, this file shouldnt even be checked into source control. Ooops!