Gradle tasks are not showing in the gradle tool window in Android Studio 4.2

I just updated Android Studio to version 4.2. I was surprised to not see the Gradle tasks in my project.

In the previous version, 4.1.3, I could see the tasks as shown here:

But now I only see the dependencies in version 4.2:

I tried to clear Android Studio's cache and sync my project again, but there was no change.

Is this a feature change?

OK, I found why I got this behaviour in android studio 4.2.

It is intended behaviour. I found the answer in this post: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/185420705.

> Gradle task list is large and slow to populate in Android projects. > This feature by default is disabled for performance reasons. You can > re-enable it in: Settings | Experimental | Do not build Gradle task > list during Gradle sync.

Reload the Gradle project by clicking the "Sync Project with gradle Files" icon and the tasks will appear.

It could be cool that this experimental change is put in the release note of android studio 4.2.

Go to File -> Settings -> Experimental and uncheck Do not build Gradle task list during Gradle sync, then sync the project File -> Sync Project with Gradle Files. If the problem is still there, just reboot Android Studio.

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Solution 1:

You can alternatively use the below gradle command to get all the tasks and run those in terminal

./gradlew tasks --all

Solution 2.

You can also create run configuration to run the tasks like below:

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Then your run configuration will be listed like in step 1 image. You can choose and simply run it as usual.

To check the task list use the below command

./gradlew task

You will get the list of available task. To execute a particular task run command as follow

./gradlew <taskname>

I had a similar issue and I solved it by executing the following terminal command in my Android Studio Terminal:

./gradlew tasks --all

Uncheck the option of "Do not build Gradle task..." then "Sync Project with Gradle files" and it will show up.