Could not find property 'plugin' on project: - gradle

Question

I have an SDK for which I've developed a number of small test applications. These are all stand alone android apps which have the following in common:
1) All dependencies are the same (i.e. same version of my sdk/android sdk/etc..)
2) They all share a common top level build.gradle file (which is currently empty):
3) They're build,test etc.. phases are all identical.
I want the projects to all exist as modules in Android studio, and I want them to share as much configuration as possible in the top level build.gradle so that I can update the one file and have everything working correctly.
When I add the following to my top level build.gradle:
subprojects {
apply plugin: "android"
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven {
url "my.repo.com"
credentials {
username "user"
password "pass"
}
}
dependencies {
compile 'com.my.library:my-library:0.0.1'
// compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:+'
}
}
}
I get
'could not find property 'plugin' on ':App1' where ':App1' is the first app in settings.gradle, and the build fails.
My goals would be to get the above block and as many other applicable elements in this top level file.
Edit: I've fixed the syntax error (i was missing the :), but I've that leads to a "plugin with id 'android' not found. Generally this would be resolved by adding:
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.14.4'
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
}
But that doesn't resolve it in this case.
Edit 2:
final form:
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.14.4'
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
}
subprojects {
apply plugin: "android"
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven {
url "my.repo.com"
credentials {
username "user"
password "pass"
}
}
dependencies {
compile 'com.my.library:my-library:0.0.1'
// compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:+'
}
}
android {
compileSdkVersion 19
buildToolsVersion '19.1.0'
lintOptions {
abortOnError false
}
packagingOptions {
exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
}
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion 16
targetSdkVersion 19
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt'
}
}
productFlavors {
}
}
}
That seems to be working correctly.

Answer 1

This is a simple syntactical error. The apply() method takes a Map as argument. Don't forget the colon (:).
apply plugin: 'android'