Android Studio 3.4 freezing on loading project after upgrading from Android Studio 3.3

Question

After upgrading from Android Studio 3.3 to 3.4 I'm stuck unable to get past "loading project" and eventually entire android studio becomes just a blank/grey empty screen, using about 650mb ram doing nothing, but guess that's normal for java :D

Seems to me somebody really jumped the gun on this 3.4, didn't expect this much headache with an upgrade from supposedly the stable branch.

I tried deleting gradle folder from inside project and didn't help.

Answer 1

Well nothing I tried fixed it, until I remembered it was limited internet with proxy and even though Android Studio did not complain at all about unable to get something but just got stuck/froze on loading project, I found out from proxy logs that it was trying to download things from d.android.com which previous versions of A-Studio didn't use.

Once d.android.com was allowed through proxy, Android Studio 3.4 finally loaded up fine.