Failed to import new Gradle project: failed to find Build Tools revision *.0.0

Question

After spending a few hours: I restarted the Android SDK Manager and at this time I noticed that I got Android SDK Platform-tools (upgrade) and Android SDK Build-tools (new).

After installing those, I was finally able to fully compile my project.

Note: The latest ADT (Version 22) should be installed.

As of May 2020, A really straightforward solution using Android Studio:

1. Open Android Studio
2. From the top, choose File > Settings > Appearance & Behavior > System Settings > Android SDK
3. click on the tab SDK Tools at the top. Then highlight Android SDK Build Tools from the list.
4. Check "Show Package Details" check box, choose the build tools version you need and then click Apply.

Look in the SDK Manager what is your highest Android SDK Build-tools version, and copy this version number in your project build.gradle file, in the android/buildToolsVersion property (for me, version was "18.1.1").

Hope it help!

This is what I had to do:

1. Install the latest Android SDK Manager (22.0.1)
2. Install Gradle (1.6)
3. Update my environment variables:
   • ANDROID_HOME=C:\...\android-sdk
   • GRADLE_HOME=C:\...\gradle-1.6
4. Update/dobblecheck my PATH variable:
   • PATH=...;%GRADLE_HOME%\bin;%ANDROID_HOME%\tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools
5. Start Android SDK Manager and download necessary SDK API's

It happens because Build Tools revision x doesn't exist.

Today, the latest version is 23.0.2 (subject to change all the time).

The buildToolsVersions you want are included in the Android SDK, normally installed in the <sdk>/build-tools/<buildToolsVersion> directory.

Don't confuse the Android SDK Tools with SDK Build Tools.

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Change in your build.gradle's buildToolsVersion to some version installed in <sdk>/build-tools

android {
   buildToolsVersion "23.0.2"
   // ...

}

Whenever you will try to run a project with build tool version not present in studio, You will face this error.

As of now in 2017, It has been made really simple by Android Studio.

It will prompt you about this issue, along with something like this

You just have to click on it and the system will download to the build version required to run the project.