title: Firebase Crashlytics build error: "could not find io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.26.1"
body: <p>I was trying to integrate Firebase Crashlytics on my react native app but got this error while building the app.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <ul>
    <li>What went wrong:
    A problem occurred configuring root project 'MyApp'.</li>
    </ul>
    
    <p>Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':classpath'.
    Could not find io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.26.1.
         Searched in the following locations: 
        <a href="https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.pom" rel="noreferrer">https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.pom</a>        <a href="https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.jar" rel="noreferrer">https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.jar</a>
    <a href="https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.pom" rel="noreferrer">https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.pom</a>
          <a href="https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.jar" rel="noreferrer">https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.jar</a>
             <a href="https://jcenter.bintray.com/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.pom" rel="noreferrer">https://jcenter.bintray.com/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.pom</a>
             <a href="https://jcenter.bintray.com/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.jar" rel="noreferrer">https://jcenter.bintray.com/io/fabric/tools/gradle/1.26.1/gradle-1.26.1.jar</a></p>
    
    <p>Required by:
             project :</p>
    
    <ul>
    <li>Try:</li>
    </ul>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I've added <code>classpath 'io.fabric.tools:gradle:1.26.1'</code> in <code>dependencies</code> and </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>maven {
              url '<a href="https://maven.fabric.io/public" rel="noreferrer">https://maven.fabric.io/public</a>'
         }</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>in <code>repositories</code> in <code>build.gradle</code> as suggested in documentation.</p>