The Task.leftShift(Closure) method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 5.0. Please use Task.doLast(Action) instead.

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Original issue by @ghost on 2018-04-11T08:10:10Z

I'm trying to build my ionic project, but getting following error (compilation fails in gradle configuration):

PS C:\Workspace\mobileapp> ionic cordova build android --debug
Running app-scripts build: --platform android --target cordova
[13:05:08] build dev started ...
[13:05:08] clean started ...
[13:05:08] clean finished in 7 ms
[13:05:08] copy started ...
[13:05:08] transpile started ...
[13:05:19] transpile finished in 11.49 s
[13:05:19] preprocess started ...
[13:05:19] deeplinks started ...
[13:05:20] deeplinks finished in 255 ms
[13:05:20] preprocess finished in 256 ms
[13:05:20] webpack started ...
[13:05:20] copy finished in 12.27 s
[13:05:37] webpack finished in 17.47 s
[13:05:37] sass started ...
[13:05:41] sass finished in 3.91 s
[13:05:41] postprocess started ...
[13:05:41] removed unused font files
[13:05:41] postprocess finished in 80 ms
[13:05:41] lint started ...
[13:05:41] build dev finished in 33.78 s

cordova build android --debug
ANDROID_HOME=C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk
JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_151
Starting a Gradle Daemon (subsequent builds will be faster)

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 17s
1 actionable task: 1 executed
Subproject Path: CordovaLib
The Task.leftShift(Closure) method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 5.0. Please use Task.doLast(Action) instead.

    at build_bbib3h28v2rns6xj5u95qezuw.run(C:\Workspace\mobileapp\platforms\android\build.gradle:137)

The JavaCompile.setDependencyCacheDir() method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 4.0.

Incremental java compilation is an incubating feature.
The TaskInputs.source(Object) method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 4.0. Please use TaskInputs.file(Object).skipWhenEmpty() instead.

File C:\Users\user.android\repositories.cfg could not be loaded.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 20.704 secs
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred configuring root project 'android'.

Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':_debugApkCopy'.
Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:11.8.0.
Searched in the following locations:
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.pom
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Workspace/mobileapp/platforms/android/sdk-manager/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.pom
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Workspace/mobileapp/platforms/android/sdk-manager/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.jar
Required by:
project :
Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:11.8.0.
Searched in the following locations:
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.pom
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Workspace/mobileapp/platforms/android/sdk-manager/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.pom
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Workspace/mobileapp/platforms/android/sdk-manager/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.jar
Required by:
project :

• Try:
  Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
  (node:15112) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: cmd: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output:
  FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  A problem occurred configuring root project 'android'.

Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':_debugApkCopy'.
Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:11.8.0.
Searched in the following locations:
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.pom
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Workspace/mobileapp/platforms/android/sdk-manager/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.pom
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Workspace/mobileapp/platforms/android/sdk-manager/com/google/android/gms/play-services-auth/11.8.0/play-services-auth-11.8.0.jar
Required by:
project :
Could not find com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:11.8.0.
Searched in the following locations:
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.pom
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Workspace/mobileapp/platforms/android/sdk-manager/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.pom
file:/C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.jar
file:/C:/Workspace/mobileapp/platforms/android/sdk-manager/com/google/android/gms/play-services-identity/11.8.0/play-services-identity-11.8.0.jar
Required by:
project :

• Try:
  Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
  at ChildProcess.whenDone (C:\Workspace\mobileapp\platforms\android\cordova\node_modules\cordova-common\src\superspawn.js:169:23)
  at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:159:13)
  at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:943:16)
  at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:220:5)
  (node:15112) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
  (node:15112) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

I'm having following version of tools:

Ionic: 3.20.0
Cordova: 8.0.0
Cordova-Android: 6.2.3
Any help would be very grateful.