I saw someone met the same problem on StackOverflow. Fortunately,  I found out how to make it work. So leave some notes here:

  1. upgrade Gradle version to 1.6
  2. Afterward, running “gradle build –stacktrace”, you will see that ANDROID_HOME environment variable is required to be set up.
  3. on Mac, add following line to your ~/.bash_profile
    export ANDROID_HOME="/Applications/Android Studio.app/sdk/"

Now it should work like a charm!