Gradle – Error Could not find method implementation() for arguments [com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.0.0]

I am trying to open existing android project in android studio and it gradle cannot build the app without the error

Error android studio keeps on throwing

Error:(74, 1) A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
> Could not find method implementation() for arguments 
[com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.0.0] on object of type 
org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

My Code in build.gradle Which can help to understand my issue My dependencies

dependencies {
compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')

// google & support
implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:$supportVersion"
implementation "com.android.support:cardview-v7:$supportVersion"
implementation "com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:$supportVersion"
implementation "com.android.support:design:$supportVersion"
implementation "com.android.support:palette-v7:$supportVersion"
implementation "com.android.support:customtabs:$supportVersion"
implementation "com.android.support:support-v4:$supportVersion"
implementation 'com.google.android.exoplayer:exoplayer:r2.0.4'

// utils
implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.0.0'
annotationProcessor 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.0.0'
implementation 'com.koushikdutta.ion:ion:2.1.7'
implementation 'com.github.Commit451:bypasses:1.0.4'
implementation 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:8.8.0'
annotationProcessor 'com.jakewharton:butterknife-compiler:8.8.0'
implementation 'com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor:2.9.1'
implementation "com.orhanobut:hawk:2.0.1"

}

Please help to solve the issue

Answer

Replace compile with implementation.

compile was recently deprecated and replaced by implementation or api

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