Getting OpenWeatherMapApi error while building

[khat33b]

I am getting an error in build.gradle in the line below after downloading the final project. This is the first time I am building the project after downloading the zip file.

    buildTypes.each {
        it.buildConfigField 'String', 'OPEN_WEATHER_MAP_API_KEY', MyOpenWeatherMapApiKey
    }

The error is:

Error:(21, 0) Could not find property 'MyOpenWeatherMapApiKey' on com.android.build.gradle.AppExtension_Decorated@28a8005d.

[exagil]

You need to generate an OpenWeatherMapApiKey from openweathermap.org and paste it at the required location

[khat33b]

That worked. Thanks!

[robophil]

Where is the required location, cos am still getting the same error after adding it

[nwaokoron]

#69

hope this helps

[josegl06]

I have the same error, I added the key but still don't work

[albaqawi]

This part of the course was poorly fixed after OpenWeathermap required to get an API key for each user.

the fix is easily found here in this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33226978/could-not-find-property-xxxx-on-com-android-build-gradle-appextension-decorate

either: Create the file
~/.gradle/gradle.properties (Win: %USERPROFILE%.gradle\gradle.properties). If gradle.properties does not exist - just create it.
In the file add following line:

MyOpenWeatherMapApiKey="XXXXXXXXXXXYOUR API KEY AFTER YOU GET IT XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"

OR

hard code the key in the line of code
it.buildConfigField 'String', 'OPEN_WEATHER_MAP_API_KEY', '"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"'

The link I shared has more details.

I hope this helps.

[xuezhaojun]

before:

 buildTypes.each {
        it.buildConfigField 'String', 'OPEN_WEATHER_MAP_API_KEY', MyOpenWeatherMapApiKey
    }

after:

buildTypes.each {
        it.buildConfigField 'String','OPEN_WEATHER_MAP_API_KEY',"\"xx2920cbac9a6733bd9bbb8573871226\""
    }

[Adityareddyp]

Is this project by Udacity-Google?

[MohamedRoushdy]

@Adityareddyp Yes it is. But it sounds they don't support it anymore.