gradle - Android Studio: Plugin with id 'android-library' not found

Question

I've been trying to get ActionBarSherlock to work and having some issue. One issue I've come across is the following message when trying to build it:

Plugin with id 'android-library' not found

Specifically:

D:ProjectsAndroidactionbarsherlock>D:ProjectsAndroidgradlew --info build
Starting Build
Settings evaluated using empty settings script.
Projects loaded. Root project using build file 
  'D:ProjectsAndroidactionbarsherlockuild.gradle'.
Included projects: [root project 'actionbarsherlock']
Evaluating root project 'actionbarsherlock' using build file 
  'D:ProjectsAndroidactionbarsherlockuild.gradle'.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file 'D:ProjectsAndroidactionbarsherlockuild.gradle' line: 1

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'actionbarsherlock'.
> Plugin with id 'android-library' not found.

I'm treating this as an ABS issue in a seperate thread, so here I'm curious how to address the general issue of:

Plugin with id 'android-library' not found

Here is the build.gradle:

apply plugin: 'android-library'

dependencies {
  compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.+'
}

android {
  compileSdkVersion 14
  buildToolsVersion '17.0.0'

  sourceSets {
    main {
      manifest.srcFile 'AndroidManifest.xml'
      java.srcDirs = ['src']
      res.srcDirs = ['res']
    }
  }
}

Can you help?

Answer 1

Instruct Gradle to download Android plugin from Maven Central repository.

You do it by pasting the following code at the beginning of the Gradle build file:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.1.1'
    }
}

Replace version string 1.0.+ with the latest version. Released versions of Gradle plugin can be found in official Maven Repository or on MVNRepository artifact search.