Getting Build failed with an Exception Android Studio 0.4.3 and 0.4.4

Question

This is my problem:

since I have updated Android Studio to .4.3 everytime I try to make a new project I get some Build failure, the thing happens with each and every new project, no code of my own there...

Let's take a look:

Android code:

package com.appgcm;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.os.Build;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    if (savedInstanceState == null) {
        getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                .add(R.id.container, new PlaceholderFragment())
                .commit();
    }
}


@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
    // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
    // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
    int id = item.getItemId();
    if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
        return true;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

/**
 * A placeholder fragment containing a simple view.
 */
public static class PlaceholderFragment extends Fragment {

    public PlaceholderFragment() {
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
            Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container, false);
        return rootView;
    }
}

}

Build.gradle

apply plugin: 'android'

android {
compileSdkVersion 19
buildToolsVersion "17.0.0"

defaultConfig {
    minSdkVersion 7
    targetSdkVersion 19
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
}
buildTypes {
    release {
        runProguard false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard rules.txt'
    }
}
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+'
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar', '*.aar'])
}

Gradle console error:

Executing tasks: [:appgcm:generateDebugSources]

Relying on packaging to define the extension of the main artifact has been deprecated     and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 2.0
:appgcm:preBuild FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':appgcm:preBuild'.
> Build Tools Revision 19.0.0+ is required.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option     to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 3.265 secs

Ok, I think that is enough information to take something out, I'm still not really expert with gradle, so the detailed your explanations the better.

Thanks a lot!

EDIT:

I took advice from pyus13 and now i'm gatting another sort of error, here it is:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file 'C:\Users\pandolet\workspace\APPGCM\appgcm\build.gradle' line: 1

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':appgcm'.
> Plugin with id 'android' not found.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 0.306 secs

Root level build.gradle:

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.8.+'
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}

Answer 1

First download latest Build Tools 19.0.0 and 19.0.1 using your Android SDK Manager.

Then do change buildToolsVersion "17.0.0" in to indside your build.gradle file

buildToolsVersion "19.0.0"

Because as mentioned in release documents Gradle 1.10 and android plugin 0.8 requires buildTools 19.0.0+

Also make sure your root project level build.gradle file has gradle plugin 0.8 as classpath like this

    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.8.+'