FFS, Android Studio loves to mess with the Gradle config.

briar-android/briar-android.iml

@@ -59,6 +59,19 @@
       <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/androidTest/java" isTestSource="true" />
       <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/androidTest/jni" isTestSource="true" />
       <sourceFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/src/androidTest/rs" isTestSource="true" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/assets" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/blame" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/classes" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/dependency-cache" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/incremental" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/jniLibs" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/manifests" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/ndk" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/pre-dexed" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/res" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/rs" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/symbols" />
+      <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/intermediates/transforms" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/outputs" />
       <excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/tmp" />
     </content>

briar.iml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<module external.linked.project.id="briar" external.linked.project.path="$MODULE_DIR$" external.root.project.path="$MODULE_DIR$" external.system.id="GRADLE" external.system.module.group="" external.system.module.version="unspecified" type="JAVA_MODULE" version="4">
+<module external.linked.project.id="briar" external.linked.project.path="$MODULE_DIR$" external.root.project.path="$MODULE_DIR$" external.system.id="GRADLE" external.system.module.group="" external.system.module.version="unspecified" version="4">
   <component name="FacetManager">
     <facet type="java-gradle" name="Java-Gradle">
       <configuration>