Project won't even sync (let alone compile)
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- build-system, mobile
Research direction
Reproduce the sync failure from a fresh clone using Android Studio Otter 2025.2.1 Patch 1 on macOS 11.7.10, then capture the actual Gradle or sync error. Done means the project syncs successfully in the reported environment and can proceed to compilation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Just cloned the project from https://github.com/android/codelab-android-datastore. Can't even get the project to sync. Tried starting from scratch 3 times--no luck. This project is just bunk for the latest versions of Android Studio.
Android Studio Otter | 2025.2.1 Patch 1
Build #AI-252.25557.131.2521.14432022, built on November 13, 2025
Runtime version: 21.0.8+-14196175-b1038.72 x86_64
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Toolkit: sun.lwawt.macosx.LWCToolkit
macOS 11.7.10
GC: G1 Young Generation, G1 Concurrent GC, G1 Old Generation
Memory: 4096M
Cores: 8
Metal Rendering is ON
Registry:
undo.documentUndoLimit=2000
ide.instant.shutdown=false
debugger.watches.in.variables=false
ide.experimental.ui=true
ide.images.show.chessboard=true
Non-Bundled Plugins:
com.jetbrains.edu (2025.10-2025.2-803)
com.nasller.CodeGlancePro (2.0.1)
- Dominant language
- Kotlin
- Stars
- 240
- Forks
- 113
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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