Android sync failed: Project could not be found

Question

I tried to sync an android project after I have changed the file settings.gradle to the following content (added the third line)

include ':app'
include ':libraries:volley'
project(':LibraryModule').projectDir = new File('/home/alexander/Projects/AndroidStudio/LibraryProject/LibraryModule')

in order to use the code in LibraryModule in my current project. However the sync fails with the following message:

Error:Project with path ':LibraryModule' could not be found.

But the file /home/alexander/Projects/AndroidStudio/LibraryProject/LibraryModule does exist and contains the following two files:

LibraryModule/build/outputs/aar/LibraryModule-debug.aar
LibraryModule/build/outputs/aar/LibraryModule-release.aar

What is wrong this time...?

Possible duplicate of [Android studio add external project to build.gradle](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17479076/android-studio-add-external-project-to-build-gradle) — OneCricketeer, Nov 22 '16 at 14:15
That other folder is just `build/outputs`? No Gradle files on its own? — OneCricketeer, Nov 22 '16 at 14:16
But I had the impression that those aar files are the most important ones — Alex, Nov 22 '16 at 14:18
I was under the impression that Gradle is going to compile the code in that library directory, not just copy some AAR files. — OneCricketeer, Nov 22 '16 at 14:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '16 at 14:19

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Try this:

include ':app'
include ':libraries:volley'
include ':LibraryModule'
project(':LibraryModule').projectDir = new  File('/home/alexander/Projects/AndroidStudio/LibraryProject/LibraryModule')

answered Nov 22 '16 at 14:19

Vygintas B

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That worked!! Thanks. Do you know some good tutorial on the settings.gradle file? – Alex Nov 22 '16 at 14:22
Not really :) Just had same problem and i remembered it – Vygintas B Nov 22 '16 at 14:22

Android sync failed: Project could not be found

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