Gradle distribution needs to be updated in order to work with JDK v9

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yes

Environment

Environment: OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.6 Node: 8.7.0 Yarn: 1.2.1 npm: 5.5.1 Watchman: 4.9.0 Xcode: Xcode 9.0.1 Build version 9A1004 Android Studio: 2.3 AI-162.4069837

Packages: (wanted => installed) react: 16.0.0-beta.5 => 16.0.0-beta.5 react-native: 0.49.3 => 0.49.3

Steps to Reproduce

1. Update to JDK version 9+
2. run react-native run-android

Expected Behavior

Should build android files correctly

Actual Behavior

Errors with following details

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine java version from '9.0.1'.

Solution seems to be described here: https://discuss.gradle.org/t/could-not-determine-java-version-from-9-0-1/24457 I tried it and got past the error, but had issues when opening project in my android studio, so am not sure if further steps are required.

[gregogalante]

This work for me:

Edit the file /android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties and update the last line with:

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.3-rc-2-all.zip

So i update the gradle version used for project dependencies.

[lndgalante]

What it works for me was to rollback to Java8

brew cask uninstall java
brew tap caskroom/versions
brew cask install java8