Cannot find symbol ViewModel with Dagger 2

I'm creating a new Android project and I adding Dagger 2, but it fails with an error related to androidx libraries.

After using a template from within Android Studio, I've added a few lines, kotlin-kapt, and the dependencies for Dagger 2.

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

...

dependencies {
    ...

    // Dagger
    implementation 'com.google.dagger:dagger:2.16'
    kapt 'com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:2.16'

    ...
}

When trying to build the application, it fails with the following errors.

error: cannot find symbol
public final class MainActivityViewModel extends android.arch.lifecycle.ViewModel {
                                                                       ^
    symbol:   class ViewModel
    location: package android.arch.lifecycle


error: cannot find symbol
private final androidx.lifecycle.MediatorLiveData
                                ^
    symbol:   class MediatorLiveData
    location: package androidx.lifecycle


error: cannot find symbol
private androidx.navigation.NavController navController;
                           ^
    symbol:   class NavController
    location: package androidx.navigation


 ...

I've tried with androidx libraries, and the older libraries but both fail. If I removed the Dagger 2 dependencies it will build and run fine.

I'm currently using Android Studio 3.2 Canary 17.

Any idea what's going wrong?

Thanks.

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