Android Studio 2.2. Preview 1 error: “Please use JDK 8 or newer”

Question

On trying to run Android Studio 2.2 Preview 1, it gives the following error on gradle build:

Error:Please use JDK 8 or newer.

If

Answer 1

if you are using 3.0.1 first enable the use embedded jdk option from File-> project structure -> enable use embedded jdk