React Native FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. Could not resolve ':classpath'. Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1

Question

When I make the command \"react-native run-android\" then it happened:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: A problem occurred configu

Answer 1

buildscript {
    repositories {
        google() // I had to put this before jcenter(). If I put jcenter() first it fails when running react-native run-android
        jcenter()
    }
}

To be clear though, if i put jcenter() first in buildscript, I could still get a successful build within Android Studio. Running react-native run-android however was failing until I put google() in front of jcenter(). After that everything was smooth as butter.