title: Fabric plugin incompatible with Gradle 4.4 +
body: <p>Recently I have had to update my project to use Gradle 4.4 from 4.1.
  i.e.</p>
  
  <pre><code>distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in my gradle-wrapper.properties file.</p>
  
  <p>However, this is incompabitble with the fabric plugin</p>
  
  <pre><code>apply plugin: 'io.fabric'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As since the gradle update, I now get build errors when syncing my project.
  Such as:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Error:Could not get unknown property 'manifestFile' for task
    ':Module:generateVariantFlavorRFile' of type
    com.android.build.gradle.internal.res.GenerateLibraryRFileTask.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><strong>Does anyone know when/if there will be a new plugin update that is compatible with gradle 4.4+?</strong></p>