Android Studio Stuck at opening Project?

Question

I recently updated from Android Studio 2.0 to 2.1.2 and now I have a project which doesn't open. Android Studio is stuck at the following screen for more than 10-15min.

I tried solutions from these answers.[ans1] [ans2] but none of them work.

I can create new projects and also import projects built on eclipse. But cannot open my own project.

Please help.

Did you find any solutions for this? – Jamshaid K. Mar 08 '17 at 10:09 — Jamshaid K., Mar 08 '17 at 10:09

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '17 at 09:57

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Delete the gradle folder in the project folder. It will work.

answered Mar 18 '17 at 09:57

Purvil Bambharolia

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Do not forget to take a backup – Srujan Barai Mar 18 '17 at 09:58
This solution works. but I had to wait again for downloading the graddle files. – princebillyGK Nov 10 '20 at 03:05
Which gradle folder? I hace the following resources in the root of my project folder: .gradle\ gradle\ gradlew gradlew.bat gradle.properties Should I delete all of them? – Don G. Jan 06 '23 at 14:54

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 28 '18 at 15:55

For many problems such as stuck with opening or downloading something while starting I use this sequence as an ultimate guide and on one of the steps always works out. Recently I used it after updating to 3.2

Try File -> Invalidate caches / Restart
Shutdown Android Studio
Remove .gradle folder in the user home directory
Start Android Studio (Studio will download gradle data)
After Gradle build is done, rebuild project

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 22 '19 at 14:53

According to Android Studio's Known Issues https://developer.android.com/studio/known-issues under "Configuration on demand with Gradle 4.6 and above:", if you are using Android Gradle Plugin 3.0.x or 3.1.x with Gradle 4.6 and above you should add the following line to gradle.properties:

org.gradle.configureondemand = false

This seemed to solve my issue with Android Studio getting stuck at "Project setup: reading from cache".

Android Studio Stuck at opening Project?

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