Android studio v2.2.2 error(27,17) failed to resolve junit:junit4.12

Question

I have searched everywhere for this answer and tried multiple ways to fix this but as I\'m new to this IDE I need a little help.

All I have done is created an empty

Answer 1

just remove :

androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
    exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
})