The project uses Gradle 2.10 which is incompatible with Android Studio 2020.3

Question

While learning android studio from udacity they asked me to download a project; I did so but while I was importing it to android studio I got an error message:

The project uses Gradle 2.10 which is incompatible with Android Studio 2020.3.

Why did I get this error?

Answer 1

If you did not figure this out yet, I am just starting the same project too. I changed the classpath like above. I then found a website to use the latest version of gradle and the plugin. It says "You can specify the Gradle version in either the File > Project Structure > Project menu in Android Studio, or by editing the Gradle distribution reference in the gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file." I did the first one.

Then, I got errors for both build.gradle files in the project and app version. I get this error: Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.3

If you get this error, click the link "Add google Maven repository and sync project". Then you have to click "Do refactor".

Now you come across another error in one of the build.grade files. This stackoverflow link will tell you: Gradle - Error Could not find method implementation() for arguments [com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.0.0]

Finally, replace testCompile with testImplementation and then you should get BUILD SUCCESSFUL.