Capacitor (build.gradle does not exist/operation not permitted) React app to Android can’t build Code Answer

I can’t build my react webapp to android using capacitor (never done it before). However, I successfully did so to ios.

I’ve tried to sync gradle manually from android studio (file > sync project with gradle files), but still no luck.

These are the errors (steps to reproduce are included below):

12.41 Gradle sync failed: /spacex-launches/node_modules/@capacitor/android/capacitor/build.gradle
(Operation not permitted) (54 s 634 ms)

The main question here is, (Operation not permitted)
I’ve tried to allow all access for everything (read and write) for everyone for every file in the folder. Still, again, no luck.

The commands I ran to reproduce these errors:

1. npx cap init
2. npx cap app (then I picked android)
3. npx cap open android (it tried to sync and then gave me the errors above; thus build is not possible).

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks a lot.

Answer

Turns out, opening the android folder manually using Android Studio, weirdly enough fixed it.