Error:Failed to open zip file. Gradle's dependency cache may be corrupt

I updated android studio 2.3 and there is a bug, gradle doesn't build and it keeps giving me the same error for all projects.

Error:Failed to open zip file.
Gradle's dependency cache may be corrupt (this sometimes occurs after a network connection timeout.)
<a href="syncProject">Re-download dependencies and sync project (requires network)</a>
<a href="syncProject">Re-download dependencies and sync project (requires network)</a>

I have already searched for a solution, but have not found any. I tried:

Invalidate Caches / Restart...

but nothing has changed.

Repair Gradle Installation

This usually happens when something goes wrong in Android Studio's first launch (eg. system crash, connection loss or whatever).

To resolve this issue close Android Studio and delete the following directory's content, necessary files will be downloaded on IDE's next launch.

macOS: ~/.gradle/wrapper/dists

Linux: ~/.gradle/wrapper/dists

Windows: C:\Users\your-username\.gradle\wrapper\dists

While downloading Gradle manually works, I recommend letting Android Studio itself to do it.

UPDATE 17 JULY 2018:

Even if the following solution still works as of today,I've found (thanks to the answer posted by Hamid Asghari and to the comment posted by Mahendra Dabi) that simply deleting the gradle dist directory and performing a reboot of the ide, will fix the issue (please read Hamid post for a full answer, and remember that OSX and Linux have the same gradle path).

If you still want to follow my original solution, you should at least consider using a more up-to-date version of Gradle (direct link of the gradle distribution repo: https://services.gradle.org/distributions/)

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Original answer (dated 7 March 2017):

I've faced the same issue this morning after upgrading Android Studio to 2.3. To solve the issue:

1. Manually download Gradle 3.3 binary (direct link: https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.3-bin.zip)

2. Open your android studio root directory, and extract the zip to the gradle folder (for example in my Debian machine the full path is /opt/android-studio/gradle/gradle-3.3)

3. Open Android Studio, go to File->Settings->Build, Exectution, Deployment->Gradle and set "Gradle home" to point your new gradle-3.3 folder.

4. Sync and you are ready to go!

I faced the same issue 2 days ago and today I was able to solve it like this:

1. Go to this path C:\Users\user_name\.gradle\wrapper\dists where user_name is your username if its you own PC or your company's name.

2. Delete the latest gradle-****-all files since your latest update of android studio (ex. 2.3 or another version).

3. If your android studio is open, close it then reopen it. A newer Gradle version will be downloaded, it will take time depending on your internet speed, the download size is around 150-200 MB before extraction so if android studio takes a long time to refresh just know its downloading. (To check the download progress right click on the new gradle folder, go to properties and check the size).

Find 'gradle-wrapper.properties' in root project

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

Change "https" to "http".

There are Following Steps to solve this issue.

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1. Go to C:\Users\ User Name \.gradle\wrapper\dists.
   
2. Delete all the files and folders from dists folder.
   
3. If Android Studio is Opened then Close any opened project and Reopen the project. The Android Studio Will automatic download all the required files.
   

(The required time is as per your Internet Speed (Download Size will be about "89 MB"). To see the progress of the downloading Go to C:\Users\ User Name \.gradle\wrapper\dists folder and check the size of the folder.)

just remove and reDownload wrapper gradle.

Mac Home/.gradle/wrapper/dists/

remove gradle version and sync gradle in project and run project.

Go to Project pane> Android > Gradle Scripts and open "graddle-wrapper.properties" file check the distribution URL:

Go to your ".gradle/wrapper/dists/" folder and remove that file for me it was "gradle-5.6.4-all"

Then go back to android studio and click on File > Sync Project with Gradle Files. And it will start to download again

Following solution is working for me Manually deleted all files from C:\Users\Admin.gradle\wrapper\dists\

where Admin is my user name

Android Studio 4.1.1 has this bug,

In gradle-wrapper.properties

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-bin.zip

This won't download and always gives 'gradle cache corrupt' error, but a small change makes it work fine

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-all.zip

Now sync the gradle again and it's done.

1.Go to "/Users/****/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-.-all/*****".

2.Delete the "gradle-.-all.zip.lck" file.

3.Invalidate Cache and Restart.

you do not need to clean all files in dir C:\Users\ ~User Name~ \.gradle\wrapper\dists. and download all of them again

instead you can just delete the folder of gradle version you failed to download. In my case it was gradle-4.4-all so i just deleted that folder and android studio re downloaded gradle-4.4-all for me

In case you don't know version you was downloading:

Just go to help menu > show logs in explorer > their you will find idea.log open it and search for

Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distribution`

once you find it you will find gradle version you failed to download

This was the best solution for me, just follow this path C:\Users\yourusername.gradle\wrapper\dists then delete all the files inside this folder. Close your android studio and restart it and it will automatically download the updated gradle files.

I was upgrading gradle from 4.1 to 4.10 and my internet connection timed out.

So I fixed this issue by deleting "gradle-4.10-all" folder in .gradle/wrapper/dists

Taking a cue from @Mikel Yang, I found out that instead of deleting the ~/.gradle/wrapper/dists/ folder (which will means downloading the gradle files for different apps on my Android Studio), I decided to change the gradle.wrapper.properties file to any latest gradle --all.zip. So

Find 'gradle-wrapper.properties' in root project

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-{lastest}-all.zip

this way l get to save some data and time.

This happened to me because of a partially downloaded gradle distribution zip

• To resolve simply go to below path

  "C:/Users/your_username/.gradle"

  OR

  pull your gradle path from File->Settings->Build, Exectution, Deployment-> Gradle -> gradle service directory path.

• Delete the partially downloaded distribution gradle folder

• Go to Studio (no need to restart) and perform gradle sync

Go to "File" in android studio, Click "invalidate caches/Restart" and "Invalidate and Restart"

That also works

I faced the issue, In my understanding, It is because of invalid combination of Android Studio And Gradle Plugin versions. I was using Gradle version 5.4.1 and Studio version 3.4, hence I updated the Android studio to 3.5 and the issue got resolved

You can delete the latest gradle-.-all folder from the below path Windows: C:\Users\your-username.gradle\wrapper\dists

> find file gradle-wrapper.properties

update with :

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5.1-all.zip

1). Android studio-> file-> "Invalidate Caches/Restart" -> "Invalidate and Restart"

wait for gradle sync 

2). Download gradle.x.x.x-bin.zip using browser

unzip it and place it in ".gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-x.x.x-bin\xxxxxxxxxxx(auto generated folder)/

then restart android studio