Android Studio: Background task running indefinitely

Question

After updating the Android SDK, I started Android Studio. Now its showing background task continuously running with message

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Answer 1

I'm also facing this issue, I've tried almost all the methods mentioned in this post, but none of them worked. The only solution that worked for me is to upgrade Android Studio to 3.5(which is still a test version at the time of writing this answer).