Gradle-experimental won't create .so files for jni

I recently switched from using .mk files in my android-ndk project to using a fully gradle solution, with the help of the gradle-experimental plugin. After I did this, I thought it was working, but then I cleaned the project and manually deleted all the .so files so that they could be recreated. Unfortunately, after this they were never recreated, and now my app doesn’t run. What is wrong with my gradle (which I assume it has to be). Also, I am using gradle-experimental 0.8.0-alpha4, since alpha 5 gives me ide errors.

Project Structure:

android/
    app/
        build/
        src/
            main/
                assets/
                java/
                res/
                AndroidManifest.xml
        build.gradle
    build.gradle
    settings.gradle
    local.properties
common/
    src/
    headers/
    freetype/
    ...
ios/

app: build.gradle:

apply plugin: 'com.android.model.application'
apply plugin: 'checkstyle'

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.3.0'
}

model {
    android {
        compileSdkVersion = 23
        buildToolsVersion = '23.0.2'

        dependencies {
        }

        defaultConfig.with {
            applicationId = 'com.buildertrend.gantt'
            minSdkVersion.apiLevel    = 11
            targetSdkVersion.apiLevel = 23

            buildConfigFields {
                create() {
                    type "int"
                    name "VALUE"
                    value "1"
                }
            }
        }

        buildTypes {
            release {
                minifyEnabled = false
                proguardFiles.add(file('proguard-rules.txt'))
            }
        }

        ndk {
            moduleName "gantt"
            stl "stlport_static"
            CFlags.add("-I../../common/freetype/include")
            CFlags.add("-DANDROID_NDK")
            CFlags.add("-DDISABLE_IMPORTGL")
            CFlags.add("-DFT2_BUILD_LIBRARY=1")
            ldLibs.add("EGL")
            ldLibs.add("android")
            ldLibs.add("GLESv2")
            ldLibs.add("dl")
            ldLibs.add("log")
            ldLibs.add("mui")
        }

        sources {
            main {
                jniLibs{
                    source{
                        srcDir 'src/main/libs'
                    }
                }
                java {
                    source {
                        srcDirs = ["src/main/java"]
                    }
                }
                jni {
                    exportedHeaders {
                        srcDirs  = ["../../common/freetype/include"]
                    }

                    source {
                        srcDirs = ["../../common/src"]
                        srcDirs += ["../../common/headers"]

                        include "../../common/freetype/src/autofit/autofit.c"
                        include "../../common/freetype/src/base/basepic.c"
                        ...
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

checkstyle {
    toolVersion = '6.18'
    configFile rootProject.file('checkstyle.xml')
    showViolations true
    configProperties = ['checkstyle.cache.file': rootProject.file('build/checkstyle.cache')]
}

task checkstyle(type: Checkstyle) {
    source 'src'
    include '**/java/com/buildertrend/gantt/**/*.java'

    // empty classpath
    classpath = files()
}

check.dependsOn 'checkstyle'

Did you ever find the answer to this? I am facing a similar issue.