I faced this problem too. Sometimes the version of plugin, gradle and SDK Build tools are not compatible. For example plugin version 4.2.0 only support gradle version 6.7.1 and SDK Build Tools 30.0.2. If you use lower version of SDK or gradle, you would get error in compilation time. For more information you can referee to this reference. My problem resolved by updating the version of plugin to 4.2.2 , gradle to gradle-6.7.1-all , compileSdkVersion to 30 and finally targetSdkVersion to 30