Gradle's dependency cache may be corrupt (this sometimes occurs after a network connection timeout.)

I updated my Android Studio to 2.3 and it asked me to update my gradle plugin to 3.3 that created issues with my running projects. I've gone through all the Stack solutions and nothing worked for me except this workaround: I changed my distribution url in gradle-wrapper.properties with this one.

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.2-all.zip 

(permanent link list here : https://services.gradle.org/distributions/)

My project is up and running.It just asked me to update to gradle build tools 25.0.0 which I did so. Everything is fine now :)

1. Go to the project section and select gradle scripts menu.
2. Under script, menu select gradle -wrapper.properties
3. Then replace the distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.2-all.zip with "distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.4.1-all.zip"

note: distributions gradle will change depended upon the version of the android studio.

Make sure you have Internet Connection then:

1.For Window Users Go to > C:\Users\username\.gradle\wrapper\dists

2.For Linux users Go to $HOME/.gradle (~/.gradle) and/or (Under Specific project) <PROJECT_DIR>/.gradle

3.Delete the gradle file(s) with the problem(i.e the zipped folders with missing with no its extracted file )

4.Sync the project with gradle files.

Delete corrupt files

This error occurs when Gradle files are not completely downloaded or corrupted by some other reason, so we have to redownload the files. The easy way is to delete the old files in

C:\Users\username.gradle\wrapper\dists

and rebuild the project, Android Studio will automatically download the new files.

Watch the Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u92_73vfA8M

or

follow steps :

1. Go to any browser

2. type gradle and press enter

you can specify any version you want after the

gradle keyword

i am downloading gradle 3.3

3. https://services.gradle.org/distributions click on this link which is in description directly if you want

4. click on gradle 3.3 all.zip

5. wait for the download to complete

6. once the download is complete extract the file to the location

c://user/your pc name /.gradle/wrapper/dists

7. wait till extraction it takes 5 mins to complete

8. Now open your project in android studio

9.go to file > settings >bulid ,exec,deployment > gradle

10. now change use default gradle to

use local gradle distributn

select the location where you had extracted gradle 3.3.zip

C:\Users\your pc name.gradle\wrapper\dists\gradle-3.3

11. click on OK

12. Now build starts again and

you can see now the build is successful and error is resolved

If you manually setup gradle also make sure projects build.gradle verison is compatible with it. See following as an example.

Project's build.gradle

dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.2'
    }

Manual gradle setup