Musical Chairs with Gradle: Surviving the Build Party

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Shows a practical workflow that reduces Gradle mysteries to five root causes (configuration, dependencies/plugins, execution, performance, environment) and demonstrates two live fixes: upgrading a mismatched Android Gradle Plugin to a compatible release to pair with Gradle 9.x, and removing a non‑existent plugin so sync succeeds. Uses commands like assembleDebug, diagnostic tools such as dependencyInsight and stacktrace, recommends gradle wrapper, specific JDK/SKD alignment (examples: Java 17 vs 21, SDK 37) and cache clears; both demos finish with a successful build.

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1. 0:00Gradle troubleshooting intro
2. 2:39Gradle failure patterns
3. 7:44Five Gradle problem types
4. 8:27Build config issues
5. 13:07Dependencies & plugins
6. 16:21Build execution errors
7. 19:11Performance & memory
8. 21:14Development environment setup fixes
9. 24:51Live demo: Gradle errors
10. 30:51Gradle maintenance tips
11. 35:27Closing tips

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