Android Studio 0.8.2 - Gradle project sync failed

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In hindsight I should not
have enabled L build stuff.

I am new to
programming and I created a new Android Studio project which is throwing the Gradle
errror right away.

Errors
are:

yellow bar at the top - Gradle project sync
failed. Basic functionality (e.g. editing, debugging) will not work properly. Try again
Open Event Log Show Log in Finder

messages
gradle sync - compileSdkVersion android-L requires compiling with JDK-7. open sdk
settings, open file.

tried looking
through google and other comments but did not find much I could make sense of except for
href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22148584/android-studio-gradle-sync-project-failed">Android
Studio - Gradle sync project failed

tried converting URL to 1.10 instead of 1.12
and syncing but that failed after syncing

I need
help either getting L working or removing it so that a new studio project can compile to
device without errors.

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I too
faced the same issue and after days of trouble I figured it out. Just check if Java is
installed

• Open a Terminal
  window and
  type:

java
-version

Any version
above JDK 6 is OK

• In
  terminal
  type

open
-a TextEdit ~/.bash_profile

• Copy and paste the
  following lines of into
  textedit

export
JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)

export
JDK_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)

• Save
  it, close editor and type the following to apply
  changes

source
~/.bash_profile

Now
try gradle sync now, you must be able to complete sync