Failed to list versions for com.facebook.react:react-native

[nibblesnbits]

With jCenter being sunset and currently having issues, I currently can't build my application due to some references in the project's gradle config.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':ostrichapp_react-native-radial-gradient:compileReleaseJavaWithJavac'.
> Could not resolve all task dependencies for configuration ':ostrichapp_react-native-radial-gradient:releaseCompileClasspath'.
   > Could not resolve com.facebook.react:react-native:+.
     Required by:
         project :ostrichapp_react-native-radial-gradient
      > Failed to list versions for com.facebook.react:react-native.
         > Unable to load Maven meta-data from https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/facebook/react/react-native/maven-metadata.xml.
            > Could not HEAD 'https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/facebook/react/react-native/maven-metadata.xml'.
               > Read timed out

Incident status: https://status.gradle.com/incidents/9740r6bzx438

From what I've read elsewhere this is fixable by updating the gradle config on your side, possibly even by bumping version with no real changes.