Android Studio compiles the project in the command line, androidstudio
Find any project in the samples/Android-21/folder under the android sdk directory. If you compile the project directly in the command line
This error may be reported:
gradle buile.gradle
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Task 'build.gradle' not found in root project 'BorderlessButtons'. * Try: Run gradle tasks to get a list of available tasks. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. * Exception is: org.gradle.execution.TaskSelectionException: Task 'build.gradle' not found in root project 'BorderlessButtons'. at org.gradle.execution.TaskSelector.getSelection(TaskSelector.java:101) at org.gradle.execution.TaskSelector.getSelection(TaskSelector.java:76) at org.gradle.execution.commandline.CommandLineTaskParser.parseTasks(CommandLineTaskParser.java:42) at org.gradle.execution.TaskNameResolvingBuildConfigurationAction.configure(TaskNameResolvingBuildConfigurationAction.java:44)
If so, first go back to the project directory and run
./gradlew ./gradlew build
Then execute the compilation.
Gradle build gradle tasks // view all tasks of android gradle compileReleaseSource // generate the debug apk, In the build/outpus/apk folder
Reference http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14093024/trying-gradle-build-task-build-not-found-in-root-project/14093100