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Try to edit your project build.gradle file and set the android build gradle plugin to classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.1' within the dependency section.

See also the documentation of the android grade plugin

It's a bit late, But easy and effective. Click on About Android Studio, Check the current version, Open build.gradle of Project and put it in front of the class path. e.g Your studio version is 3.5.2, then your classpath should look like this

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.2'

You would need to lower your gradle version and android plugin version, or you can download latest version from beta or canary update channels.

To enable updates from other channels go to Help -> Check for Updates -> Congifure automatic updates and in that dialog select channel you want. After selecting check for update again and it will show you latest version.

This issue is caused due to use of newer version of gradle in the project. There are two options to resolve this:

Option 1: Change gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.10.1-all.zip

Change project level gradle build.gradle file

classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.2")

Option 2: Update your Android Studio to newer version. (Highly recommended)

In IntelliJ IDEA this is an open bug: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-252823

As a workaround, you can change the build tools version as other people advise.

My project was failing with this dependency:

com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.0-alpha03

Now it's working with this:

com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.2

As a side note, you should change that dependency in build.gradle in some projects or in dependencies.kt in newer projects.

That was the most updated version that worked.