Android Studio 1.4 gradle fails when building baseGameUtils

Question

Since updating Android Studio to version 1.4, baseGameUtils, which is a dependency of my project, fails to build. I'm guessing this is something to do with the new Theme editor as when opening the files which have errors a 'helpful' popup comes up saying that these generated files should not be manually edited and that I should be using the theme editor. baseGameUtils has no drawable resources, themes or styles so I have no idea why this problem even exists?

Gradle Build finished with 102 error(s)
:baseGameUtils:generateDebugResValues UP-TO-DATE
:baseGameUtils:generateDebugResources
:baseGameUtils:mergeDebugResources
:baseGameUtils:processDebugManifest UP-TO-DATE
:baseGameUtils:processDebugResources
D:\Android_Studio_Projects\SuperAwesomeProject\baseGameUtils\build\intermediates\exploded-aar\com.android.support\appcompat-v7\22.2.0\res\values-v21\values-v21.xml
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Body1'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Body2'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Button'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Caption'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Display1'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Display2'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Display3'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Display4'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Headline'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Inverse'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Large'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Large.Inverse'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Widget.PopupMenu.Large'.
Error:(2) Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Material.Widget.PopupMenu.Small'.
......

Edit. After following the advice in the url linked to in the comment (AppCompat v7 r21 returning error in values.xml?) of changing compile-against to SDK 21 (why, why, why!!!) and Build Tools 21.0.2, GameHelper.Java no longer compiles, complaining that:

D:\Android_Studio_Projects\SuperAwesomeProject\baseGameUtils\src\main\java\com\google\example\games\basegameutils\GameHelper.java
Error:(32, 39) error: package com.google.android.gms.appstate does not exist
Error:(293, 28) error: cannot find symbol variable AppStateManager
Error:(294, 30) error: cannot find symbol variable AppStateManager

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26457096/appcompat-v7-r21-returning-error-in-values-xml — IntelliJ Amiya, Oct 13 '15 at 05:39

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 13 '15 at 06:28

Solution that appears to work of today (13 October 2015):

Change build.gradle in baseGameUtils to this:

apply plugin: 'com.android.library'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 21
    buildToolsVersion "21.1.2"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 9
        targetSdkVersion 19
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:21.0.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:+'
}

Replace GameHelper.java with the latest one found here.
Replace BaseGameActivity.java with the latest one found here.

Thank you Google for another wasted morning...

Android Studio 1.4 gradle fails when building baseGameUtils

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