'New Android studio 4.2 Preview having this error when creating buildSrc and build.gradle.kts

I am trying to use buildSrc for dependency management in the new Android 4.2 Preview version and getting this error.

Cannot access 'java.lang.Object' which is a supertype of 'org.gradle.api.artifacts.repositories.MavenArtifactRepository'. Check your module classpath for missing or conflicting dependencies
Cannot access class 'java.net.URI'. Check your module classpath for missing or conflicting dependencies


Solution 1:[1]

  1. delete project/.idea folder

  2. delete project/.gradle folder

  3. restart and reopen the project

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Solution 1 Ryan Hoo