Gradle error: 'Could not find lint-gradle-api.jar'

I think this is an Android Studio version thing, I have 3.2. The Gradle build failed with:

gradle error: 'Could not find lint-gradle-api.jar'

The fix was to add / move google() to be first in the buildscript and allprojects repositories in build.gradle

Start in build.gradle and reproduce the reported Gradle failure involving lint-gradle-api.jar with the Android Studio 3.2 setup described. Check the buildscript and allprojects repository declarations, then verify that the Android project builds successfully without the missing-jar error.

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