Orbot fails to compile

When building orbot, gradle is not able to find the google maven repository:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring root project 'orbot'.

Could not resolve all files for configuration ':classpath'. Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0. Searched in the following locations: https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/gradle/3.0.0/gradle-3.0.0.pom https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/tools/build/gradle/3.0.0/gradle-3.0.0.jar Required by: project :