I ran into this issue as well. Basically, the issue is that mentioned jar file is no longer in jcenter. I resolved by changing the order of search in our app build.gradle:
buildscript {
repositories {
maven {
url 'https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2'
}
google()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.2'
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
}