Exporting to android not working, Gradle could not start your build

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By AviY

I basically messed up somehow, followed the Godot docs on how to export to android, downloaded everything in the docs, and exported just fine.

Two days ago when trying to export, I got a message " ‘apksigner’ returned with error #1.
I followed many guides on how to solve this general problem, literally tried everything, then I came across a Q&A that said to completely delete everything that is related to the android exporting, giving a full list of items, and so deleted everything and reinstalled again (the full list in the docs including debug.keystore), and nothing worked.

so I tried to use a custom build in the export tab, and it finally gave me a more detailed error but I’m too much of a noob to understand what I’m suppose to do.

The error is:

Starting a Gradle Daemon, 1 incompatible Daemon could not be reused, use --status for details

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • What went wrong:
    Gradle could not start your build.

Could not create service of type CrossBuildFileHashCache using BuildSessionServices.createCrossBuildFileHashCache().
Failed to create parent directory ‘D:\Projects\GitHub***\android\build.gradle’ when creating directory 'D:\Projects\GitHub***\android\build.gradle\7.2\fileHashes’

  • Try:
    Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

  • Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 2s

Exit Code: 1

Sorry for the long post, but i literally tried everything i found online to solve this issue and i’m just desperate at this point.
Custom build error message
My Editor Settings

so i think i solved the problem somehow? i changed the unique name when exporting and it seemed to work fine? i hope its a valid solution for anyone stuck with this problem aswell