Why Android Studio says “Waiting For Debugger” if am NOT debugging?

I am working with Android Studio. Since last night, when I Run my project on my device, appear the message “Waiting For Debugger”. It is a very strange behavior because I am not debugging application. I’ve tried to uninstall application from my device and press Run on Android Studio. The message appears again. I’ve tried … Read more

Gradle tasks are not showing in the gradle tool window in Android Studio 4.2

I just updated Android Studio to version 4.2. I was surprised to not see the Gradle tasks in my project. In the previous version, 4.1.3, I could see the tasks as shown here: But now I only see the dependencies in version 4.2: I tried to clear Android Studio’s cache and sync my project again, … Read more

Cannot resolve symbol ‘AppCompatActivity’

I’ve just tried to use Android Studio. I’ve created blank project and tried to create Activity which extends AppCompatActivity. Unfortunalty Android Studio “says” that it Cannot resolve symbol ‘AppCompatActivity’ I have compile “com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.0.+” in dependency list of my “app” module and rebuilt project several times. However I can only use ActionBarActivity. What am I doing … Read more

Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 14

Since downloading the latest SDK and installing Android Studio, my project fails to build. I get the following message: Error:Gradle: Execution failed for task ‘:SampleProject:processProdDebugManifest’. > Manifest merger failed : uses-sdk:minSdkVersion 14 cannot be smaller than version L declared in library com.android.support:support-v4:21.0.0-rc1 28 Answers 28