Import of Eclipse project into Android Studio using build.gradle file fails

Question

I'm trying to import my Eclipse based Android project using the build.gradle file. I get the following message: "failed to find Build Tools revision 18.0.0". However, according to the Android SDK Manager, I have Android SDK Build-tools 18.0.1 installed.

I am doing all this on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine, if that's relevant.

How do I fix this?

UPDATE: I actually only updated to Build-tools 18.0.1 this morning. I then noticed that, when making a new project in Android Studio, it wouldn't allow me to create a project using Android 4.3 (4.2.2 was the latest allowable version). I tried dropping the target version of my project to Android 4.2.2, and re-exporting it. Now Android Studio complains about not being able to find Build-tools 18.0.1 when I try to import this project.

Answer 1

I was an Android Studio virgin too up until 10 minutes ago. I ran into the same problem. If you check your SDK Manager in Android Studio (or Eclipse I believe) it will show which tools you have installed. I am/was missing build tools 18.0.1 too and getting the error....but it was because I hadn't installed them.

So without modifying the Gradle build files, I was able to install the build tools using the SDK Manager and get everything up and running.

See this image:

As an aside, I also had to update the API version as well because it selected an API version that wasn't installed (which I don't get because it was when I compiled with Eclipse).

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

This did the trick for me.

In build.gradle file inside the main module modify the line

buildToolsVersion "18.0.0" 

to

buildToolsVersion "18.0.1"