gradle, Could not expand ZIP appcompat-v7:19.0.1
It seems the issue is with directories permissions .
Check and try following things :
- Check whether you have write access on both the android sdk and Android Studio directories.
- if you are on Windows OS, also try to run Android Studio as Administrator by right clicking on the Studio's icon, .
Just wanted to add my experience. I was getting this error for a kafka jar
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Could not expand ZIP '/home/srangwal/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.kafka/kafka_2.9.2/0.8.2.0/f9e44ac2d80afee7d5696f11814e6a65af5a380a/kafka_2.9.2-0.8.2.0.jar'.
> Could not copy zip entry /home/srangwal/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.kafka/kafka_2.9.2/0.8.2.0/f9e44ac2d80afee7d5696f11814e6a65af5a380a/kafka_2.9.2-0.8.2.0.jar!kafka/consumer/ZookeeperConsumerConnector$ZKRebalancerListener$$anonfun$kafka$consumer$ZookeeperConsumerConnector$ZKRebalancerListener$$addPartitionTopicInfo$1.class to '/home/srangwal/work-projects/griffin/build/tmp/expandedArchives/kafka_2.9.2-0.8.2.0.jar_7e6mtfrbv2j9f9v18u5gsfe9q/kafka/consumer/ZookeeperConsumerConnector$ZKRebalancerListener$$anonfun$kafka$consumer$ZookeeperConsumerConnector$ZKRebalancerListener$$addPartitionTopicInfo$1.class'.
To debug, I tried to touch the file that gradle was trying to create, since permissions of all my directories were fine
touch '/home/srangwal/work-projects/griffin/build/tmp/expandedArchives/kafka_2.9.2-0.8.2.0.jar_7e6mtfrbv2j9f9v18u5gsfe9q/kafka/consumer/ZookeeperConsumerConnector$ZKRebalancerListener$$anonfun$kafka$consumer$ZookeeperConsumerConnector$ZKRebalancerListener$$addPartitionTopicInfo$1.class'
touch: cannot touch ‘/home/srangwal/work-projects/griffin/build/tmp/expandedArchives/kafka_2.9.2-0.8.2.0.jar_7e6mtfrbv2j9f9v18u5gsfe9q/kafka/consumer/ZookeeperConsumerConnector$ZKRebalancerListener$$anonfun$kafka$consumer$ZookeeperConsumerConnector$ZKRebalancerListener$$addPartitionTopicInfo$1.class’: File name too long
I was getting this error because I was working on an encrypted filesystem in ubuntu and the encrypted filesystem did not allow very long filenames.
If you're on *UNIX, you can run this command from the Android Studio command line
sudo chmod -R 777 /your/project/path