How to solve “Gradle DSL method not found:  ‘runProguard()'”in Android Studio Project 

Hello friends, today we are going to solve “Gradle DSL method not found: ‘runProguard ()'” Error in android studio.

You might get this error when you download android studio project from the internet and try to run it in your machine. This is because the application is developed using previous version of android studio & its app build.gradle file is not matching with your current version of android studio.

Let’s take a look at build.gradle file (app module)

Under buildTypes you will find

runProguard false

Which doesn’t exist anymore with later versions of android studio. So you have to replace this code with J

minifyEnabled false

Now your modified code segment should look like this

There are many useful projects in the internet which are publicly shared for learning purposes. Among those some of android studio projects may give this error because they are build using previous versions of android studio IDE. Edit your code and have a great experience :P