build issues with Android Studio

[sk92129]

Upon initial project loading into Android Studio with JDK 11, it fails.
It uses gradle 4.1 which is incompatible with JDK 11 or newer.

After upgrading gradle from 4.1 to 4.8 there is still a build error : Unable to load class "javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema"

Attempting again shows:
Could not initialize class com.android.sdklib.repository.AndroidSdkHandler

After updating the SDK build tools 33-rc4, it still fails with same error.

I reverted from jdk 11 to jdk 1.8. Now I see the original error again:

cvc-complex-type.2.4.a: Invalid content was found starting with element 'base-extension'. One of '{layoutlib}' is expected.

With this error, it says to install android sdk platform 26. I installed the platform tools 26.0.3 but it then built partially but the AGP needed to be upgraded too. This caused more changes, including going back to jdk 11.

Perhaps this project needs to be refreshed with the latest Android tools?