[Android Studio] hardya:
I have upgraded from Android Studio 1.0 to 3.3.

I was building and rebuilding and flashing my software to phone very effectively on 1.0 and now after upgrade after nearly two days of work I can still not get the basics (build Android app as far as java compile errors) working.

I appologise if my questions are not perfectly formed, I am beginning to get really tired and confused and I would be so grateful of a little latitude and some help to get back to where I was.

When I installed 3.3 it recommended that it uninstall the current version, which I agreed to it doing. So fresh start I guess.

Amongst other things...

After the install, my app would not build and kept asking for a newer version of gradle. I set in settings local gradle 4.10.1 and I set the gradle plug-in to 3.3.0 in the top level gradle file. I tried setting "use default gradle wrapper" and then setting these versions in "project structure" but they kept changing back again, so I used the other method just described. It then complained it couldn't find that plugin so I added repositories google and jcentre to that file. It then began to build but complained that a version of build tools could not be installed because the license had not been accepted. I clicked on the link provided and accepted the license, but the build tools would not install, no reason.

I could not find "sdk manager" menu item anywhere in AS menu structure. Don't know why. It used to be there in 1.0.

Thinking it's a brand new install as it said I go to OS start->all programs->Android sdk tools and launch sdk manager as administrator. I install the offending build tools version accepting the license.

I rebuild, same error.

I look where that sdk manager exe was and there is no license folder in that folder nor the one above.

I root around the folder structure and find a different sdk manager under prog files (x86)\Android\android-studio\sdk and a license folder in the folder above. I run that sdk manager and install the offending build tools version accepting the license.

I go back to Android studio and click rebuild project, nothing I mean literally nothing happens, clean, nothing, make, nothing! Nothing at all! I close AS and restart it (as administrator), exact same issue. This new issue really gives me very little to work with as there is no feed back at all. I'm beginning to regret upgrading AS as it is holding me back from coding now.

I have two questions:

1) Can anyone see a possible way out of my immediate problem and how to get my project at least attempting to build again and get at least as far as just compile errors.

2) Am I right in thinking that current version of AS is far from an out of the box experience even for the common default activities (build Android java project) and has a variety of unexpected anomolies OR a lot of settings whose defaults may very likely not be useful and need manually resetting? IF SO... Is it therefore recommended I do a couple of days reading maybe about the structure of "specifically" AS and it's dependant components and how to set them up and use them effectively? IF SO... what documents would one recommend, so as to make the most efficient use of time.

Apologies if this is not well formed. Hoping for some help.

Thanks.