API 'variant.getPreBuild()' is obsolete

[justcla]

When building Santa Tracker with Studio 3.4.2, a WARNING is produced citing "variant.getPreBuild()" as deprecated.

WARNING: API 'variant.getPreBuild()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getPreBuildProvider()'.
It will be removed at the end of 2019.
For more information, see https://d.android.com/r/tools/task-configuration-avoidance.
To determine what is calling variant.getPreBuild(), use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display a stack trace.
Affected Modules: santa-tracker

[AbhiAndroidManiac]

I got the same error while building the project.

[JavierRefuerzo]

I have similar issues caused by "playServicesOssLicenses" in build.gradle