upgrade gradle

playground/android/build.gradle

 buildscript {
     repositories {
         jcenter()
+        google()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.3'
+        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()
+        google()
+        mavenLocal()
+        mavenCentral()
         maven {
             // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
             url "$rootDir/../../node_modules/react-native/android"

playground/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.3-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.3.1-bin.zip