Gradle build failing after update to 3.0

For latest update of Android Studio 3.0

In gradle-wrapper.properties(File Name) change URL of distributionUrl to the following:

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-all.zip

Upgrade your gradle build tools to the latest version.

One easy way to do this is to add the latest version of the build tools as a dependency in your build.gradle file, for example:

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.0-beta1'
}

You can then run gradle tasks and gradle will download everything you need.

After Android Studio 2.2 stable released on Sep 19 2016 , the latest version of the build tools is 2.2.0 . So you can fix it by :

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.0'
}

As Android Studio 2.4 stable is not ready to release yet (May 4 2017), the latest stable version of build tools is 2.3.1 .

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.1'
}

If you update this build tools version to 2.3.* , you should also update gradle wrapper version to 3.3 in /yourProjectRoot/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties file. (i know it is not matching question Gradle build failing after update to 3.0, but i strongly suggest you to use latest build tool as google recommended)

BTW: version 2.3.1 of build tool is only exist on jCenter, not MavenCentral, so if you run into error below when run gradlew command line in terminal

Could not find com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.1.
 Searched in the following locations:
     https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/2.3.1/gradle-2.3.1.pom
     https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/2.3.1/gradle-2.3.1.jar

just replace mavenCentral() with jcenter() like

 repositories {
    jcenter()
    //mavenCentral()
}

If you use gradle plugin 2.1.3, It's simple to solve:

update your gradle plugin to version 2.2.0-beta1

Notes: this is a beta version, maybe you can get any other issues.

https://discuss.gradle.org/t/classcastexception-in-gradle-nightly-3-0-20160609/17979

Happy coding :)

Okay I got it working. For anyone facing the same problem the way it worked for me is as follows:

1. Go to your external .gradle folder (for me it was C:\Users\drilon.gradle). Inside caches and daemon folder delete all the version folder (they look like this "2.14.1", or "3.0"). Also go to wrapper -> dists -> delete everything there.
2. Inside your project root (for me it was C:\Users\drilon\AndroidStudioProjects\PorjectName) go to the .gradle folder and delete everything there.
3. Rebuild the project

EDIT:
Turns out this solution was setting the gradle version back to 2.14.1. ending0421's solution is the working one.