You are probably hit by this bug which prevents the Android Gradle Plugin from automatically adding the “Android Support Repository” to the list of Gradle repositories. The work-around, as mentioned in the bug report, is to explicitly add the m2repository directory as a local Maven directory in the top-level build.gradle file as follows:
allprojects {
repositories {
// Work around https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=69270.
def androidHome = System.getenv("ANDROID_HOME")
maven {
url "$androidHome/extras/android/m2repository/"
}
}
}