Opening older android studio project on Android studio 3.0 & 3.1

If you don’t want to mess with resolving gradle problem, connecting to Internet, spending time synchronizing, building and troubleshooting gradle, please stay with your android studio 2.3 .

Meanwhile if you are someone that love to explore and get updated on new release of android studio, then you can follow this steps to open older android studio project on your new Android studio 3.0

firstly, understand the version of gradle that is required for each version of Android plug-in for gradle

https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin

Also download gradle-3.3 and unzip it your gradle directory

1. Open the project : you may get error that looks like this

2. Check the gradle -wrapper-properties, note the gradle specified in the distributionUrl

3. Now go to Settings =>Build, Execution,Development =>Gradle =>Gradle home, and choose the the downloaded gradle-3.3 you downloaded above

4. Sync project with the gradle file:

you may get this update pop up dialog

Choose Don’t remind me again for this project

And see your project build successfully