title: Gradle failed to restore: Unable to find method 'org.gradle.api.file.ProjectLayout.directoryProperty
body: <p>I was loading an Android project that downloaded from Github, the project look fairly recent and nothing weird that I can find. But when I open it, it failed to build with the following error:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>Unable to find method
  'org.gradle.api.file.ProjectLayout.directoryProperty(Lorg/gradle/api/provider/Provider;)Lorg/gradle/api/file/DirectoryProperty;'.
  Possible causes for this unexpected error include: Gradle's dependency
  cache may be corrupt (this sometimes occurs after a network connection
  timeout.) Re-download dependencies and sync project (requires network)</p>
  <p>The state of a Gradle build process (daemon) may be corrupt. Stopping
  all Gradle daemons may solve this problem. Stop Gradle build processes
  (requires restart)</p>
  <p>Your project may be using a third-party plugin which is not compatible
  with the other plugins in the project or the version of Gradle
  requested by the project.</p>
  <p>In the case of corrupt Gradle processes, you can also try closing the
  IDE and then killing all Java processes.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Other android projects that were created on my machine works fine.
  What can be the issue?</p>