Gradle error upgrading to Android Studio 3.0 Beta 1

Question

Note: This seems to be an issue with the Android plugin. See comments for associated issues.

I get the following gradle error when building the project:

Answer 1

Credit to @Grsmto

As per this blog post you need to open a terminal and launch the following commands sequentially:

UPDATE

Now the workaround it's easier, you just need to go to Build -> Clean Project and then sync.

Windows

gradlew clean

gradlew assemble

Linux/Mac

./gradlew clean

./gradlew assemble

then sync the project.