compileSdkVersion is not specified

I’m getting a java.lang.IllegalStateException: compileSdkVersion is not specified on builds now.

It’s weird because it happened after a small text change, so I was confused. I even rerran on the last commit it worked on, and it’s failing now.

Useful info: I’m manually overriding to cordova@8.1.2 on npm install. This has been working for about 8 months no problem.

Anyone have thoughts? Similar issues? Started today around noon central.

Trying to provide some more research here by comparing logs. Things switched from downloaded these:

(3.6.0)

▸ Download https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/3.6.0-beta01/gradle-3.6.0-beta01.pom
▸ Download https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/builder/3.6.0-beta01/builder-3.6.0-beta01.pom
▸ Download https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle-api/3.6.0-beta01/gradle-api-3.6.0-beta01.pom
▸ Download https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/androidx/databinding/databinding-compiler-common/3.6.0-beta01/databinding-compiler-common-3.6.0-beta01.pom

to these (4.0.0):

▸ Download https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/4.0.0-alpha01/gradle-4.0.0-alpha01.pom
▸ Download https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/builder/4.0.0-alpha01/builder-4.0.0-alpha01.pom
▸ Download https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle-api/4.0.0-alpha01/gradle-api-4.0.0-alpha01.pom
▸ Download https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/androidx/databinding/databinding-compiler-common/4.0.0-alpha01/databinding-compiler-common-4.0.0-alpha01.pom

There are a few other changes but they all seem related to this upgrade. Does anyone have thoughts?