I downloaded the latest version of Android studio and created a new project, but it seems that I can't get it to work since the Gradle Daemon is failing because my windows user has a comma ' . My username also has a space, but I guess that I shall see if I will get another error when I reach there.
Any settings that I can do to bypass this problem, without changing my user name?
You could try various hacky things like setting your GRADLE_USER_HOME and TEMP environment variables to folders outside your user space (e.g. C:\gradle & C:\temp).
However, you're going to be fighting against Gradle / Android / the entire build process now and forever! I'd really really recommend instead using a name without special characters. If this isn't possible, perhaps a new user with a simple name would be a quick fix.
After some searching, I had an idea and I found a possible solution:
The solution is a mix of these 2 questions:
Set gradle temporary directory to SSD
Android Studio missing essential plugin org.jetbrains.android
1. Change Gradle temp files to another directory
Create a new folder ex: D:\some\dir\
Go to System Properties and edit the Envitonment Variables.
Add GRADLE_OPTS with -Djava.io.tmpdir=D:\some\dir\
Add GRADLE_USER_HOME with D:\some\dir\
2. Remove disabled_plugins.txt file
Go to the following path and delete the file:
C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Google\AndroidStudioVersion\disabled_plugins.txt
3. Re-create the project