Could not find property 'compile' on org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler_Decorated@397740e0

Question

I was working through a lecture using the parse.com starter program for two days with no issue. I went away for a few minutes and without anything that I can see being changed and now it won't sync. I have searched but found nothing that I can see wrong. Thanks in advance for your help.

This is the error:

Error:(36, 0) Could not find property 'compile' on org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler_Decorated@397740e0. 

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This is my gradle file:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application' apply plugin: 'com.parse'  buildscript {     repositories {         mavenCentral()         maven {              url 'https://maven.parse.com/repo'          }     }     dependencies {         classpath 'com.parse.tools:gradle:1.+'     } }  android {     compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion     buildToolsVersion rootProject.ext.buildToolsVersion      defaultConfig {         applicationId "com.parse.starter"         minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion         targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion         versionCode 1         versionName "1.0"     }     buildTypes {         release {             minifyEnabled false             proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'         }     } }  dependencies {       compile     'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.1' compile     'com.parse.bolts:bolts-tasks:1.3.0' compile     'com.parse:parse-android:1.11.0' compile     'com.android.support:design:22.2.1'     compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.1' }  /* Uncomment if you enable ProGuard and you want to automatically upload symbols on build. parse {   applicationId "YOUR_APPLICATION_ID"   masterKey "YOUR_MASTER_KEY"    // Make symbol upload automatic. Otherwise, use e.g. ../gradlew parseUploadSymbolsDebug;   uploadSymbols true } */ 

Answer 1

You've used compile as a property, but it isn't one. You need to pass a string argument to it.

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.1'  compile 'com.parse.bolts:bolts-tasks:1.3.0'  compile 'com.parse:parse-android:1.11.0' compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.1' compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.1' 

EDIT: As people have mentioned in the comments, you shouldn't have two identical dependencies. However this doesn't cause the problem you described. I believe it might cause an "Unexpected Top Level Exception" when you build with gradle.