Gradle cannot find dependency that doesn't exist - Android studio

Question

I'm trying to import an android project from bitbucket at my work, as the former android developer quit and I'm to continue his work.

Gradle sync never returns ok. It got the error:

Error:Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement:9.0.0. Required by: frontend:app:unspecified

funny thing is, I grabbed every occourence of the string "measurement" at the whole git folder and found only one, at module app, build.gradle, and it was commented and not even the version gradle is complaining about:

dependencies {
...
//    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement:8.3.0'
...
}

Can someone please help? I would really appriciate it as I'm struggling here for a couple of hours already. Thx in advance!

the project (named "frontend") build.gradle:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        mavenCentral()
        maven {
            url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots"
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.3.0'
        classpath 'me.tatarka:gradle-retrolambda:3+'
        classpath 'com.neenbedankt.gradle.plugins:android-apt:1.4'
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:2.0.0-alpha3'

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        mavenCentral()
        maven {
            url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots"
        }
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

the module (named "app") build.gradle:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application' apply plugin: 'me.tatarka.retrolambda'

android {

    compileSdkVersion 23
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.2"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.smartbus"
        minSdkVersion 17
        targetSdkVersion 23
        versionCode 29
        versionName "2.1.5"
        multiDexEnabled true
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }

    useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'


    dexOptions {
        preDexLibraries = false
    }

    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }

    lintOptions {
        abortOnError false
    }

}


retrolambda {
    jdk "C:\\ProgramData\\Oracle\\Java\\javapath\\java.exe"
    jvmArgs '-noverify' }





dependencies {
    apply plugin: 'android-apt'
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    provided "org.projectlombok:lombok:1.16.8"
    apt "org.projectlombok:lombok:1.16.8"
    compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.0.0-alpha2'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:24.0.0-alpha2'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:24.0.0-alpha2'
    compile 'com.google.guava:guava:18.0'
    compile 'org.reflections:reflections:0.9.10'
    compile 'com.annimon:stream:1.0.5'
    compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor:3.0.0-RC1'
    compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.0.0-beta3'
    compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.0.0-beta3'
    compile 'com.github.rey5137:material:1.2.2'
    compile 'com.getbase:floatingactionbutton:1.10.1'
    compile 'com.prolificinteractive:material-calendarview:1.1.0'
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.5'
    //    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement:8.3.0'
    retrolambdaConfig 'net.orfjackal.retrolambda:retrolambda:+'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:9.0.0'
    //    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:9.0.0'
}



apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

the whole-error:

Error:A problem occurred configuring project ':app'. Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':app:_debugCompile'. Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-measurement:9.0.0. Searched in the following locations: https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/google/android/gms/play-services-measurement/9.0.0/play-services-measurement-9.0.0.pom https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/google/android/gms/play-services-measurement/9.0.0/play-services-measurement-9.0.0.jar https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/android/gms/play-services-measurement/9.0.0/play-services-measurement-9.0.0.pom https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/android/gms/play-services-measurement/9.0.0/play-services-measurement-9.0.0.jar https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/google/android/gms/play-services-measurement/9.0.0/play-services-measurement-9.0.0.pom https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/google/android/gms/play-services-measurement/9.0.0/play-services-measurement-9.0.0.jar file:/C:/Users/Re'em/AppData/Local/Android/sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-measurement/9.0.0/play-services-measurement-9.0.0.pom file:/C:/Users/Re'em/ AppData/Local/Android/sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-measurement/9.0.0/play-services-measurement-9.0.0.jar file:/C:/Users/Re'em/AppData/Local/Android/sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-measurement/9.0.0/play-services-measurement-9.0.0.pom file:/C:/Users/Re'em/AppData/Local/Android/sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-measurement/9.0.0/play-services-measurement-9.0.0.jar Required by: frontend:app:unspecified

Answer 1

Can you change

classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:2.0.0-alpha3' to the latest version say 
classpath  'com.google.gms:google-services:3.0.0'

and check

courtesy user3330522 answer