Using Android Studio 3.3 Canary 11 with the gradle plugin version 3.3.0-alpha11. It throws the following error when trying to sync gradle
3.3.0-alpha11
WARNI
As it was said, the problem is with Fabric/Crashlytics.
apply plugin: 'io.fabric'
It's a bug on Crashlytics/Firebase side, please check the following link and see the bug' status : https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/issues/198