IntelliJ can't build Gradle project due to missing libraries

Question

A while back I started a project that uses libgdx. It supports all platforms so I have a module for each in my project structure. The project worked for a long time and then I updated a few things in the IDE (I don't know what, I just accepted the updates) and nothing would build or run. Since I hadn't really made any changes I backed up my project folder, deleted it, checked out the project from github and tried to start over. Unfortunately no.

Every time I build the project I get this error:

Error:Android Gradle Build Target: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/android/utils/ILogger

When I go to file > project structure > Modules > android > dependencies the following libraries are all missing classes:

appcompat-v7-25.3.1
support-compat-25.3.1
support-v4-25.3.1
support-core-ui-25.3.1
support-core-utils-25.3.1
support-fragment-25.3.1
support-media-compat-25.3.1
support-vector-drawable-25.3.1
animated-vector-drawable-25.3.1

According to the IDE they are all supposed to be located in:

PROJECTDIR\android\build\intermediates\exploded-aar\com.android.support\LIBNAME

but \exploded-aar\ doesn't exist.

I have spent the whole day searching and trying different solutions to no avail so I don't even know if this is the problem. Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

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