Android Studio update today with regression - gradle

Question

Started Android Studio today, and it popped up an update notice. Since I'm eager to explore new features and bug fixes, I clicked yes. Now the Project Structure dialog where you setup dependencies is missing, and has been replaced by a message:
We will provide a UI to configure project settings later. Until then, please manually edit your build.gradle file(s.)
So, I go out to try to figure out how to add ActionBarSherlock to my project as a project dependency, and have hit a brick wall. I have no idea how to import ActionBarSherlock project as a Library Project, and configure my project to use it. There isn't much documentation on this at Google, IntelliJ, and the Gradle docs assume a LOT of pre-existing knowledge of build systems.

Answer 1

There are plenty of posts on SO how to do this (although referenced with already missing Project structure dialog)
How do I add a library project to Android Studio?
Android-Studio ActionBar sherlock error with gradle
Installing ActionbarSherlock with Android Studio?
Problems importing project into Android Studio regarding ActionBarSherlock
In short:
Create a folder (i.e. /libraries) in your root.
Extract actionbarsherlock there
Create a new file build.gradle in actionbarsherlock root with the following contents
buildscript {
repositories {
maven { url 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2' }
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.4'
}
}
apply plugin: 'android-library'
dependencies {
compile files('libs/android-support-v4.jar')
}
android {
compileSdkVersion 17
buildToolsVersion "17.0.0"
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion 7
targetSdkVersion 16
}
sourceSets {
main {
manifest.srcFile 'AndroidManifest.xml'
java.srcDirs = ['src']
resources.srcDirs = ['src']
res.srcDirs = ['res']
}
}
}
In your project's build.gradle
dependencies {
//NOTE that "libraries" is actually a folder name you created in step 1
compile project(":libraries:actionbarsherlock")
//Any other dependencies here
//Make sure there is no android-support-v4.jar in this build file
//as it is already contained in actionbarsherlock project
}
In settings.gradle
//NOTE that "libraries" is actually a folder name you created in step 1
include ':libraries:actionbarsherlock', ':<Your project name>'
EDIT
Last step: Close your project and open it back again for Studio to pick up the Intelli-sense data