Could not find io.fabric.tools:gradle

Question

I'm following official instructions of fabric

https://www.fabric.io/kits/android/crashlytics/install

This is my gradle.build file

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
apply plugin: 'io.fabric'

buildscript {
ext.kotlin_version = '1.1.51'
repositories {
    jcenter()
    mavenCentral()
    maven {
        url 'https://maven.google.com'
    }
}
dependencies {
...
    classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.24.3'

    }
}

repositories {
    jcenter()
    mavenCentral()
    maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
    maven {
        url 'https://maven.google.com'
    }
    maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }

}

android {

compileSdkVersion 22

buildToolsVersion '25.0.3'
defaultConfig {
    ....
}

}
dependencies {
......
   compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.7.0@aar') {
    transitive = true
  }
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

but when I try to sync my project, it says that could not find io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.24.3 searched in following locations:

Error:Could not find io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.24.3.
Searched in the following locations:

    file:/home/dev-00/soft/android-studio-3.0.0/android-studio/gradle/m2repository/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.24.3/gradle-1.24.3.pom
    file:/home/dev-00/soft/android-studio-3.0.0/android-studio/gradle/m2repository/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.24.3/gradle-1.24.3.jar
    https://jcenter.bintray.com/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.24.3/gradle-1.24.3.pom
    https://jcenter.bintray.com/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.24.3/gradle-1.24.3.jar
 ...    Required by:
    project :

Solution

In your buildscript block you have to add also the fabric repo.

  buildscript {
      repositories {
         //... jcenter(), google()...
         maven { url 'https://maven.fabric.io/public' }
      }
   }

  dependencies {
     //......
  }
}

Comments

[Jemo Mgebrishvili]

o right :/ now error is gone, but I can't use any instance of Fabric or Crashlytic for example: Fabric.with(this, new Crashlytics()); says cannot resolve symbol Fabric

[Gabriele Mariotti]

Try to clean, but this is some separate problem. It has nothing to do with your question. You may wish to consider asking a separate question

[Tope]

note that I had to move this to the top level buildscripts.repositories object block in the file. It did not work when the maven url entry was made under the allprojects.buildscripts.repositories object block of the file my allprojects

[King Julien]

Topes comment in correct. You should add the repo in buildscripts.repositories.