bug: Executing Gradle tasks as part of an undefined build is not supported

[jmadelaine]

Bug Report

Capacitor Version

[warn] The hideLogs configuration option has been deprecated. Please update to use loggingBehavior instead.
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Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 3.3.1
  @capacitor/core: 3.3.1
  @capacitor/android: 3.3.1
  @capacitor/ios: 3.3.1

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 3.3.1
  @capacitor/android: 3.3.1
  @capacitor/core: 3.3.1
  @capacitor/ios: 3.3.1

[success] Android looking great! 👌

Platform(s)

Android

Reproduce

Steps to reproduce:

• Create a React app: npx create-react-app my-app
• Install cap core and cli: npm install @capacitor/core @capacitor/cli
• Initialize repo: npx cap init
• Install Android support: npm install @capacitor/android
• Add Android to project: npx cap add android

Expected Behavior

Android is added successfully

Actual Behavior

[warn] The hideLogs configuration option has been deprecated. Please update to use loggingBehavior instead.
✔ Adding native android project in android in 34.15ms
⠇ add Error running gradle sync 
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Executing Gradle tasks as part of an undefined build is not supported. Make sure that you are executing Gradle from a folder within your Gradle project. Your project should have a 'settings.gradle(.kts)' file in the root folder.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 534ms

Unable to infer default Android SDK settings. This is fine, just run npx cap open android and import and sync gradle manually
✔ Syncing Gradle in 1.45s
✔ add in 1.48s
✔ Copying web assets from build to android/app/src/main/assets/public in 60.16ms
✔ Creating capacitor.config.json in android/app/src/main/assets in 486.84μp
✔ copy android in 87.74ms
✔ Updating Android plugins in 8.37ms
[info] Found 1 Capacitor plugin for android:
       @capacitor/app@1.0.6
✔ update android in 42.26ms
[success] android platform added!
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Other Technical Details

npm --version output: 8.1.0

node --version output: 16.13.0

Additional Context

Why does Gradle fail while building for Android? Any help please guys?

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