Gradle - Error Could not find method implementation() for arguments [com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.0.0]

Question

I am trying to open existing android project in android studio and it gradle cannot build the app without the error

Error android studio keeps on throwing

Error:(74, 1) A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'. > Could not find method implementation() for arguments  [com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.0.0] on object of type  org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler. 

My Code in build.gradle Which can help to understand my issue My dependencies

dependencies { compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')  // google & support implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:$supportVersion" implementation "com.android.support:cardview-v7:$supportVersion" implementation "com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:$supportVersion" implementation "com.android.support:design:$supportVersion" implementation "com.android.support:palette-v7:$supportVersion" implementation "com.android.support:customtabs:$supportVersion" implementation "com.android.support:support-v4:$supportVersion" implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:r2.0.4'  // utils implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.0.0' annotationProcessor 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.0.0' implementation 'com.koushikdutta.ion:ion:2.1.7' implementation 'com.github.Commit451:bypasses:1.0.4' implementation 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:8.8.0' annotationProcessor 'com.jakewharton:butterknife-compiler:8.8.0' implementation 'com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor:2.9.1' implementation "com.orhanobut:hawk:2.0.1"  } 

Please help to solve the issue

Answer 1

Replace compile with implementation.

compile was recently deprecated and replaced by implementation or api

Answer 2

Make sure you're adding these dependencies in android/app/build.gradle, not android/build.gradle