Android Studio 4.2 has introduced a lot of new features for Android development, but there’s one issue with the new tooling that may affect you. As of now, the new tooling is not compatible with Kotlin. In case you’re getting the error, “Can’t create new Kotlin project after updating to Android Studio 4.2“, then here are some possible workarounds.

How To Deal With The Error “Can’t create new Kotlin project after updating to Android Studio 4.2”?

After upgrading your Android Studio, I might have difficulty creating a project.

A problem occurred configuring root project 'My Application'.
> Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':classpath'.
> Could not find org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.5.0-release-764.
 Searched in the following locations:
   - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-gradle-plugin/1.5.0-release- 
764/kotlin-gradle-plugin-1.5.0-release-764.pom
   - https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-gradle-plugin/1.5.0-release-764/kotlin-gradle-plugin-1.5.0-release-764.pom
 Required by:
     project :

Possible solution:
- Declare repository providing the artifact, see the documentation at 
 https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/declaring_repositories.html

The error is fairly straightforward. The issue is that Gradle was unable to locate the library you specified. To fix this error, go to Project => build.gradle and change the line below.

Option 1: Upgrade Gradle

The error is fairly straightforward. The issue is that Gradle was unable to locate the library you specified. To fix this error, go to Project => build.gradle and change the line below.

dependencies {
  classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.4.30"
}

Option 2: Upgrade version

It’s also possible that the Kotlin version is a problem. As a result, I simply removed the Kotlin extensioln version. As seen below:

Before:

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = "1.5.0-release-764"
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }

After: 

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = "1.5.0"
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }

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