Setting Explict Annotation Processor

Question

I am attempting to add a maven repository to my Android Studio project. When I do a Gradle project sync everything is fine. However, whenever I try to build my apk, I get this e

Answer 1

If nothing works from above answers add following step as well, specially for new update of Android Studio 3.0.1:

Android Studio 3.0.1:

Add this to your app.gradle file in dependencies:

classpath 'com.neenbedankt.gradle.plugins:android-apt:1.8'