android studio gradle sync error

Question

After trying a preview version that gave me odd errors, i just did a fresh install of Android Studio 1.1.0 on Ubuntu Linux. I also removed the preferences directory to start from scratch.

Now even with new projects gradle sync fails with this error and i cannot find the cause or other informations that can give me hints about the cause:

Error:Cause: org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.tooling.ModelBuilderService: Provider org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.tooling.builder.ExternalProjectBuilderImpl not found

Does anybody knows how to fix this?

Wretch

Try closing Android Studio, manually removing all build folders and .iml files, and reimport the project into AS. – Individuality

Answer 1

Solved by deleting the $HOME/.gradle folder.

I guess executing the preview version messed up something there.

Wretch

Deleting just the caches subdirectory in this folder worked fine for me. – Demonstrable

Deleting caches alone didn't help in my case, had to wipe out the whole ~/.gradle directory. Also in my project directory ran find . -name "*.iml" -delete to delete all *.iml files; and rm -rf .idea/. The issue happened after I have tried Android Studio 1.2 preview. – Pollinosis

May be I am stupid....but just in case someone misunderstand as I do. $HOME/.gradle means your home directory on the OS, not the project root folder. – Disoperation

Adding an additional scenario: I tried to downgrade my AS installation by overwriting the installation on a Mac. This solved the errors. – Duckpin

I did as @DenisKniazhev described, and also rm -rf build or ./gradlew clean. – Borsch

Answer 2

I had to delete the .AndroidStudioPreview, .gradle/ and the .android. Basically it's like to uninstall android studio, but it worked for me.

Lepidosiren