First android studio project not building

Question

Good day, I wanted to learn android development so I downloaded android studio. After downloading and installing all the sdk I get an error while the opening build starts.

A problem occurred configuring root project 'My Application'.

Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':classpath'. Could not resolve com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0. Required by: project : > Could not resolve com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0. > Could not get resource 'https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/4.1.0/gradle-4.1.0.pom'. > Could not GET 'https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/4.1.0/gradle-4.1.0.pom'. > Connect to 161.158.114.70:8090 [/161.158.114.70] failed: Connection timed out: connect > Could not resolve com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0. > Could not get resource 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/gradle/4.1.0/gradle-4.1.0.pom'. > Could not GET 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/gradle/4.1.0/gradle-4.1.0.pom'. > Connect to 161.158.114.70:8090 [/161.158.114.70] failed: Connection timed out: connect Could not resolve com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.5. Required by: project : > Could not resolve com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.5. > Could not get resource 'https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/google/gms/google-services/4.3.5/google-services-4.3.5.pom'. > Could not GET 'https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/google/gms/google-services/4.3.5/google-services-4.3.5.pom'. > Connect to 161.158.114.70:8090 [/161.158.114.70] failed: Connection timed out: connect > Could not resolve com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.5. > Could not get resource 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/google/gms/google-services/4.3.5/google-services-4.3.5.pom'. > Could not GET 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/google/gms/google-services/4.3.5/google-services-4.3.5.pom'. > Connect to 161.158.114.70:8090 [/161.158.114.70] failed: Connection timed out: connect

This is the error i get and i have seen similar issues like this here and tried their solution but it does not seem to work for me. Please I need help

buildscript {
repositories {
    google()
    jcenter()
}
dependencies {
    classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0"
    classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.5'

    // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
    // in the individual module build.gradle files
}

}

It feels like you have some sort of proxy server or something at 161.158.114.70, and that proxy server is misbehaving. — CommonsWare

Ruhrpottler Ruhrpottler · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-16T14:37:18

jcenter() is deprecated since end of march as you can see here.

Replace jcenter() with mavenCentral().

First android studio project not building

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