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Android Studios unable to find gradle tasks to build a program

When I try to build a kotlin program on android studio, it displays the notification:
*Unable to find Gradle tasks to build: [:].
Build mode: COMPILE_JAVA.
Tests: All.*
This happens when I try to debug or run a code like
fun main(){
println "hello world \n I am Michael Girum."
}

In Android studio, under the project source files, under android>app>src, right click on build.gradle, and click Run 'android'
This will than compile, you can than run the project.

I tried to build an old Android project
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.1'
and I solved it by adding a
settings.gradle
with content
include ":app"

The project uses Gradle 2.10 which is incompatible with Android Studio 2020.3

While learning android studio from udacity they asked me to download a project; I did so but while I was importing it to android studio I got an error message:
The project uses Gradle 2.10 which is incompatible with Android Studio 2020.3.
Why did I get this error?

If you did not figure this out yet, I am just starting the same project too. I changed the classpath like above. I then found a website to use the latest version of gradle and the plugin. It says "You can specify the Gradle version in either the File > Project Structure > Project menu in Android Studio, or by editing the Gradle distribution reference in the gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file." I did the first one.
Then, I got errors for both build.gradle files in the project and app version. I get this error: Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.3
If you get this error, click the link "Add google Maven repository and sync project". Then you have to click "Do refactor".
Now you come across another error in one of the build.grade files. This stackoverflow link will tell you: Gradle - Error Could not find method implementation() for arguments [com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.0.0]
Finally, replace testCompile with testImplementation and then you should get BUILD SUCCESSFUL.

The project's Gradle version you're trying to clone is outdated. Change it based on your android studio version.
on your build.gradle(Project) change the version and sync
classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.2"

Got the solution :)
In gradle-wrapper.properties:
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.0.2-all.zip
In build.gradle project level:
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.4'
// NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
// in the individual module build.gradle files
}
}
In build.gradle module level:
Replace all "compile" with "Implementation" and do other suggested version updated and you are done here :)
Hope this works for you, if yes just press that up button :)

If not getting any solution, the best you can do is copy the "app" folder of your project(using file explorer) and paste it in a newly created project(should be of same name as of your project), in that way you'll get already synced gradle and newly created version of your app.
Because, every important thing in your project is present in its app folder and when you create a new project with same name and copy app folder from your older version of your project, you will have a newer version of your project with all same resources.
Note: You can't move through branches and other commits

I saw this issue several times with Android studio. Below trick worked me the best.
Android Studio suggests to upgrade to newer version, please upgrade it and let it sync
Mostly you would see error message again
Now, Go to File -> Invalidate Caches/Restart
It should work now
If it shows same error then I don't know what to do.
If it shows different error then repeat from step 1 to 3 for new error.
Hope, it helps some..

Gradle sync failed: Cause: com.android.utils.StringHelper.appendCapitalized(Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;Ljava/lang/String;)V

I have done nothing with the codebase, and I'm surprised to see the below error.
And I have tried upgrading or downgrading the Gradle wrapper and Gradle build tools.
I'm using Gradle build tools v3.2.1 with Gradle wrapper4.6-all.zip.
Note: Other projects are working fine and even I tried deleted the complete code and cloned a fresh one
Can anyone please help me

update your gradle file.
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.1'
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.2.0'

android studio cannot resolve Symbol R after importing a gradle project as module

after importing a gradle project that has apply plugin: 'com.android.library' into another gradle project and add it as dependency so i could use an activity and its classes, it throws an exception cannot resolve Symbol R
it seems all solution comming from last year are outdated and cannot be seen on the latest android studio (version 2.2.2)

You can try this,
Build => Clean Project
then you will get the error, error might be change in layout.xml file or string.xml file... solve it

Android Studio Gradle error after update from 0.2.x to 0.3.1

I have recently updated my Android Studio from 0.2.9 to 0.3.1 and when I try to compile my project i get the error:
org.gradle.tooling.GradleConnectionException: Could not execute build using Gradle distribution 'http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.7-bin.zip'.: Could not execute build using Gradle distribution 'http://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.7-bin.zip'.
I have tried to use the terminal and successfully cleaned and rebuilt by using gradlew clean and then gradlew build. I have even invalidated the caches by using File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart but I still can't build using Android Studio.
Do you have any ideas on why I have this problem and how can I fix it?
Edit #1 : When I go into Settings -> Gradle I get an error: "Gradle location is unknown". Is that the problem? Where should that path point to?

I have fixed the issue by using the advice from this post.
I have updated gradle-wrapper.properties from <AppNameProject>/gradle/wrapper/:
distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.7-bin.zip
to
distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.8-bin.zip
and build.gradle from <AppNameProject>/<AppName>/:
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.5.+'
}
to
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.6.+'
}