Render error in Android Studio 3.0 Layout Editor

Question

I just started learning Kotlin for android development and started an empty project and added an activity. I have added the required gradle dependencies as said in Kotlin do

Answer 1

I solved the issue by upgrading the gradle plugin version to 3.0.0-alpha2 and using gradle wrapper gradle-4.0-milestone-1-all.zip.

I logged the issue in android studio issue tracker - https://issuetracker.google.com/u/1/issues/62251892