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Posted by Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald
2,877 Points

How do I troubleshoot installation errors with Android Studio, Java SDK, and gradle settings.

I had the Android Studio software available in the Treehouse teachers notes running well enough to follow lessons, but I was having trouble running an emulator.

Meanwhile, I setup git and Github and had to change several path settings to make Android Studio put and get projects where gitHub was getting and putting them. I was still coding and compiling fine though.

Now I want to get the emulator working and I decided to use GenyMotion. I had to reinstall virtual machine software and GenyMotion a couple times before it worked: not sure why. I don't remember what prompted me to upgrade Android Studio either, but that gave me more errors than can handle.

I followed directions on Oracle for uninstalling Java and I also uninstalled Android Studio and reinstalled the bundle from Treehouse. Now GenyMotion runs the emulator fine but I get gradle errors as soon as I launch Android Studio.

If I create a brand new empty project I get the message "Gradle project sync failed" and the build.gradle file reads "compileSdkVersion android-21 requires compiling with JDK 7error messages when creating a new project using the wizard. The gradle message reads "compileSdkVersion android-21 requires compiling with JDK7."

At one point, there were two versions of the JDK installed on my machine but now there seems to be just JDK 6.

1 Answer

christephens
christephens
9,470 Points

I can only help on a mac. This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztFAlAmjzfE will walk you through how to download JDK 8. Then go to File->Other Settings->Default Project Structure->SDKs and change the JDK path to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home.

Hope that helps.

christephens
christephens
9,470 Points

Also, if you ever install the most recent version there is a very annoying issue. Use this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK0kW851aRc and it will save hours of your life.

Michael McDonald
Michael McDonald
2,877 Points

Thanks, I tried the former and got the same errors as before. I tried the latter and I got "Early release JDK could cause issues. Please use a stable version." Then I got the same errors as before.