build.gradle fails to compile on project open but compiles successfully after refresh
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I've been looking around for a solution to this problem that's been going on for a lot of time and a lot of IntelliJ Idea versions and I'm surprised that I can't find anything on the matter.
What happens is, every time I open a Gradle project which has import statements in build.gradle, the validation on build.gradle will fail until I hit the Gradle refresh button. Then everything checks out, all the syntax gets properly highlighted and all errors and warnings are gone.
In the screenshot below you can see what it looks like.
Why is this happening and how can I have my build.gradle validate successfully when I open up the project without having to refresh every time?
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I'm not migrating or importing the project from anywhere else.
The project has been created with IntelliJ. I'm simply closing and reopening the project and after reopening the project, build.gradle no longer validates successfully until I hit the Refresh button in Gradle.
It's a known and already reported issue as pointed out by Andrey Dernov
Please vote for it so it will be fixed.