For whatever reason, updating my gradle wrapper to 1.11 fixed the issue.
The properties file is location at project_root > gradle > wrapper > gradle-wrapper.properties
I changed
distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.10-all.zip
to
distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.11-all.zip
and now everything is recognized correctly.