diff --git a/lib/services/android-plugin-build-service.ts b/lib/services/android-plugin-build-service.ts
index 2a5ac66f87..3e71fd57d1 100644
--- a/lib/services/android-plugin-build-service.ts
+++ b/lib/services/android-plugin-build-service.ts
@@ -253,9 +253,11 @@ export class AndroidPluginBuildService implements IAndroidPluginBuildService {
 			const androidToolsInfo = this.$androidToolsInfo.getToolsInfo();
 			const compileSdk = androidToolsInfo.compileSdkVersion;
 			const buildToolsVersion = androidToolsInfo.buildToolsVersion;
+			const supportVersion = androidToolsInfo.supportRepositoryVersion;
 
 			localArgs.push(`-PcompileSdk=android-${compileSdk}`);
 			localArgs.push(`-PbuildToolsVersion=${buildToolsVersion}`);
+			localArgs.push(`-PsupportVersion=${supportVersion}`);
 
 			try {
 				await this.$childProcess.exec(localArgs.join(" "), { cwd: newPluginDir });
diff --git a/vendor/gradle-plugin/build.gradle b/vendor/gradle-plugin/build.gradle
index 5171a2e3cc..3a4a89a63d 100644
--- a/vendor/gradle-plugin/build.gradle
+++ b/vendor/gradle-plugin/build.gradle
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 buildscript {
     repositories {
         jcenter()
+        google()
     }
     dependencies {
-        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.2'
+        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
@@ -40,3 +41,12 @@ android {
         versionName "1.0"
     }
 }
+
+dependencies {
+    def supportVer = "27.0.1"
+    if (project.hasProperty("supportVersion")) {
+        supportVer = supportVersion
+    }
+    compileOnly "com.android.support:support-v4:$supportVer"
+    compileOnly "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:$supportVer"
+}
diff --git a/vendor/gradle-plugin/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/vendor/gradle-plugin/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 55a7a86c65..aa471e9281 100644
--- a/vendor/gradle-plugin/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/vendor/gradle-plugin/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.0-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-bin.zip