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This usually means the Android plugin is not applied

Check your plugins block, you should have something like this:
```plugins {
  id("com.android.application") // or "com.android.library"
}```

If you have it, then it's something else. It's pretty hard to tell from just that screenshot. Paste your whole file to <https://gist.github.com/> or somewhere else and you might get more help.

Also consider posting to <#CJYS1DAP5|> which will be a better channel for this question

The error means that you messed up the syntax somewhere within the `android { ... }` block. My recommendation is to switch to the Kotlin DSL. You immediately get type-safe build scripts, helpful error messages opposed to what you showed, and an amazingly better IDE support.

If you want to stay on Groovy DSL and get such an error, you either need to just see the error, or you need to comment out all content of that block and comment out again in bit by bit to see where the messed up syntax is