Build failing with 'Could not find method google() for arguments [] on repository container'

Message shown in console after react-native run-android:

Building and installing the app on the device (cd android && ./gradlew installDebug)...

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/jskidd3/Desktop/Apps/AppName/node_modules/react-native-svg/android/build.gradle' line: 4

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-svg'.
> Could not find method google() for arguments [] on repository container.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

I installed the plugin in a fresh project on OSX. Versions:

react-native-cli: 2.0.1
react-native: 0.52.0
Android Studio: 3.0.1

My package.json looks like this:

{
  "name": "AppName",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "private": true,
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node node_modules/react-native/local-cli/cli.js start",
    "test": "jest"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "react": "16.2.0",
    "react-native": "0.52.0",
    "react-native-svg": "^6.0.1-rc.3",
    "react-native-vector-icons": "^4.5.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-jest": "22.1.0",
    "babel-preset-react-native": "4.0.0",
    "jest": "22.1.4",
    "react-test-renderer": "16.2.0"
  },
  "jest": {
    "preset": "react-native"
  }
}

Any ideas as to how I can fix this?

[msand]

Make sure you have v4.1 of the gradle wrapper as well: https://github.com/msand/SVGPodTest/blob/master/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

#Thu Jan 18 18:05:34 EET 2018
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-all.zip

[msand]

Try changing to this:

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        google()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.1'

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        jcenter()
        maven {
            // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
            url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
        }
        google()
    }
}