It seems that somehow the android/tools/common library has been deleted (pom, jar).
android/tools/common
This caused many react native libraries that are using an old gradl
In my build.gradle file (of the project not the app) i've added the new bintray url first but also had to add all the others after:
subprojects { buildscript { repositories { maven { url 'https://dl.bintray.com/android/android-tools' } google() mavenLocal() jcenter() } } }