Could not find method implementation()

[alexandrosdrymonitis]

I’ve been developing an Android app with openFrameworks and Android studio and all has been running smoothly until yesterday where everything stopped working all of a sudden (well, maybe I did some update, but I can’t really recall what changed). There’s something going on with Gradle, I think. I uninstalled and reinstalled Android studio and OF with no luck. Android studio can’t even build the project giving this error:

Could not find method implementation() for arguments [DefaultProjectDependency{dependencyProject='project ':ofAndroidLib'', configuration='default'}] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

When I click the “open file” link I get a file where this is highlighted:

implementation project(path: ':ofAndroidLib')

This is last line from the build.gradle file in the project’s home directory.
Also, if I try to run the project I get this error:

Gradle project sync failed. Please fix your project and try again.

I read in some places that Android studio supports an earlier version of gradle and that this should be fixed in /project_home/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties where the last line points to a gradle version. In my case:

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.3-all.zip

I’m really not sure what I should do though because all the information is scattered around the internet and many things are already outdated.
Any help appreciated.

[hamoid]

Is there anything that helps you in these notes? It’s quite recent…

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[alexandrosdrymonitis]

I finally managed to get the apps to build and run again after trying several things, including stuff from the link you provided, but eventually I don’t think that was the issue.
In the last line of the build.gradle file, instead of “implementation” it should read “compile”. For some reason it changed, I guess when I was trying to find a way to launch the phone’s keyboard (which by the way I didn’t manage, so I created a keyboard of my own with rectangles and strings). Now I need to fix the projectGenerator compilation issue and all should be fine, at least for now…
Thanks for the reply!