i replaced the grade run program with minifyEnabled false, however i get an error saying Error:(15, 0) Gradle DSL method not found: 'minifyEnabled()' Possible causes: The project 'mememaker' may be using a version of Gradle that does not contain the method. Open Gradle wrapper file The build file may be missing a Gradle plugin. Apply Gradle plugin no clue why, because my other projects have minifyEnabled in the gradual and work. help please. Ps not sure how outdated this course is, but it is still relevant right? As in the way we save (use data persistence) is still the same?

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Posted June 19, 2015 7:24pm by

Gradel error with minifyEnabled false

i replaced the grade run program with minifyEnabled false, however i get an error saying

Error:(15, 0) Gradle DSL method not found: 'minifyEnabled()' Possible causes:<ul><li>The project 'mememaker' may be using a version of Gradle that does not contain the method. <a href="open.wrapper.file">Open Gradle wrapper file</a></li><li>The build file may be missing a Gradle plugin. <a href="apply.gradle.plugin">Apply Gradle plugin</a></li>

no clue why, because my other projects have minifyEnabled in the gradual and work.

help please.

Ps not sure how outdated this course is, but it is still relevant right? As in the way we save (use data persistence) is still the same?

June 19, 2015 7:27pm

Hey Kevin!

Can you show me your build.gradle file?

June 19, 2015 7:31pm

sure!

apply plugin: 'android'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 19
    buildToolsVersion '20.0.0'
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId 'com.teamtreehouse.mememaker'
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 19
        versionCode 1
        versionName '1.0'
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
    productFlavors {
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile files('libs/commons-io-2.4.jar')
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:19.0.+'
}

4 Answers

June 20, 2015 11:48am

Hey Kevin!

I've downloaded your project and managed to reproduce the problem.

I've noticed two issues with the project:

It is using a version of Gradle that is unsupported (Android only supports 1.0 and up).
The Gradle files seem to have gone corrupt - they need to be reset.

Update Gradle to a newer version

Open up the build.gradle file for the project. Add this dependency and remove any other ones (1.2.3 is the recommended version right now):

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.2.3'

Reset the gradle files

Right-click on your project and press Show in Explorer. Then, delete the .gradle and gradle directories.

After that, run a Gradle sync and the issue should go away. If not, you may need to run a Project Clean, Build or Invalidate Caches & Restart.

Hope it helps and if you have any more issues, give me a shout :)

June 20, 2015 7:57pm

Sweet it worked! thank you so much!!

June 20, 2015 8:01pm

Woohoo! Glad we got it sorted :)

June 19, 2015 7:39pm

Hey Kevin!

Can you change the first line to

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

and see if it passes with that? (Note: You'll need to run a gradle sync afterwards).

June 19, 2015 7:42pm

no it still failed. I got

Error:(14, 0) Could not find property 'minifyEnabled' on BuildTypeDsl_Decorated{name=release, debuggable=false, testCoverageEnabled=false, jniDebugBuild=false, renderscriptDebugBuild=false, renderscriptOptimLevel=3, applicationIdSuffix=null, versionNameSuffix=null, runProguard=false, zipAlign=true, signingConfig=null, embedMicroApp=true}.

and a gradel synch fail

June 19, 2015 7:48pm

If it helps, for some reason my dependencies is highlighted and when i go to the yellow bars on the left i get a message saying " 'dependencies' cannot be applied to '(groovy.lang.Closure)' " and when i click more this pops out "This inspection reports assignments with incompatible types"

June 19, 2015 8:16pm

Hey Kevin!

I traced the error back down to the

compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:19.0.+'

line in your code. Removing this will fix the error (It seems as though some new .+ version has came out that is breaking this as I previously used the same line of code).

You can swap it with this line:

compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:19.0.0'

which will fix the problem.

Hope it helps :)

June 19, 2015 8:33pm

Unfortunately it still fails. Thanks for the try tough! Could you tell me if this course is still up to date on data persistence? Do we still do data persistence like we do it in this video? Or has new stuff come out for data persistence as well?

June 19, 2015 8:59pm

The course should be relatively up-to-date. If there's anything missing or things that have changed, check the Questions section beneath the video where I and a few other students have added things.

If you still can't get your project working with the Gradle issue, feel free to send it to me and I'll see if I can reproduce and solve the problem.

Another thing I would try while I'm at it is hard-coding the false keyword:

minifyEnabled false

As I wonder if it's looking for that (It might not make any difference however - I ran my project just fine without it).

Let me know how it goes anyway :)

June 19, 2015 9:07pm

nope it still doesn't work lol. I even crossed my fingers! I would like to send it to you. how can I ?

June 19, 2015 9:09pm

To share your project, right-click on it in Android Studio and press Show in Explorer. Then, upload your project directory into a service like Google Drive, Mega.co.nz, SkyDrive or another service of your choice.

Then, share the project via a URL and I'll download it and try and reproduce your problem, then find a solution.

If you use a service like GitHub, please just send me the link to your GitHub repository and I'll fork it.

June 19, 2015 9:19pm

I am trying to use google drive, but it will only allow me to upload files not the folder. So would you only need the gradual file?

June 19, 2015 9:23pm

Hey Kevin!

On Google Drive you can go here and click New >> Folder upload :)

June 19, 2015 9:39pm

Thanks! It is uploading!

June 19, 2015 9:43pm

do i set the link for can view or can edit?

June 19, 2015 9:43pm

do i set the link for can view or can edit?

June 19, 2015 10:26pm

Hey Kevin!

Please set it to Can View.

I'll have to get back to you tomorrow though as it's getting quite late where I am. Speak to you soon :)

January 20, 2016 1:09am

I am preparing my file for release on google play .... My build.gradle release code looks like this

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

and my progurad file is empty

Do I need to set minifyEnabled to "true"

Also do I need to pasted anything in proguard ?

January 20, 2016 4:23pm

Hey Diwesh,

minifyProguard is now deprecated, so you should swap it out with runProguard, like this:

release {
                minifyEnabled false //Replaced old line: runProguard false
                // ... other code ...
}

Your question will then probably be whether you should set minifyEnabled to true. To answer this question, go ahead and check out my post over here to learn about what minifyEnabled actually does.

Hope it helps!

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Update Gradle to a newer version

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