After updating android studio to 3.0 and switching to gradle plugin 3.0.0
I am getting this error:
Gradle \'...\' project refresh failed
Err
I had the same problem after my studio upgraded from 2.3.3 to 3.0, of course I have upgraded my project gradle plugin version from 2.3.3 to 3.0.
I think the gradle plugin jar file is broken and not readable or any unknow exception happened, so delete it and re-download.
What I propose is to,
If the problem is not solved, try to delete your gradle user data (mine is C:\Users\tea\.gradle) and then re-sync project.