After doing the following changes the error disappeared:
- Removed
maven { url 'https://maven.google.com' }
from repositories in app build.gradle. - Added
maven { url 'https://maven.google.com' }
as first entry in allprojects/repositories in top level build.gradle - Changed all play-services and firebase dependencies to the latest versions
- Changed version of google-services plugin to
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.0.1'