I am building a sample project from Udacity. This was working fine till now, but after upgrading to Android Studio 3.2.1, I am facing the build error below.

Gradle version: 4.6

Project link: https://github.com/udacity/ud851-Sunshine/tree/student/S02.02-Solution-Menus

Could not find com.android.tools.build:aapt2:3.2.1-4818971**. Searched in the following locations:
    file:/C:/Users/sandeepk2/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.1-4818971/aapt2-3.2.1-4818971.pom
    file:/C:/Users/sandeepk2/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.1-4818971/aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows.jar
    file:/C:/Users/sandeepk2/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.1-4818971/aapt2-3.2.1-4818971.pom
    file:/C:/Users/sandeepk2/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.1-4818971/aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows.jar
    file:/C:/Users/sandeepk2/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.1-4818971/aapt2-3.2.1-4818971.pom
    file:/C:/Users/sandeepk2/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.1-4818971/aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows.jar
    https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.1-4818971/aapt2-3.2.1-4818971.pom
    https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.1-4818971/aapt2-3.2.1-4818971-windows.jar Required by:
    project :app

How can I fix it?


For Android Studio 3.2.1 update

Just add google() in root level build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        google()   //  <--here
        jcenter()
    }
 }

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()   //  <-- here
        jcenter()
    }
}

and see the magic - error is gone.


The project gradle version is pretty old:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.3'

And you are using Android Studio v3.2.1 so, update the gradle:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.0' // or 3.2.1 maybe

Also, as you can see, it was looking for some packages in :

file:/C:/Users/sandeepk2/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/m2repository/com/android/tools/build/aapt2/3.2.1-4818971/aapt2-3.2.1-4818971.pom

Which means you probably forgot to add google() as the top level repository. Just add google()

to your repositories in your root build.gradle.