Αfter adding the google_mobile_ads plugin to my flutter project, I get the following error when I try to run my app.
Launching lib\main.dart on Android SDK built for x86 in debug mode...
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugResources'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
> Android resource linking failed
C:\Users\Simon\.gradle\caches\transforms-2\files-2.1\fb3ac92d6ea8a3919475bb567eb91a20\core-1.7.0-alpha02\res\values\values.xml:105:5-114:25: AAPT: error: resource android:attr/lStar not found.
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BUILD FAILED in 1m 18s
The build failed likely due to AndroidX incompatibilities in a plugin. The tool is about to try using Jetifier to solve the incompatibility.
Building plugin audioplayers...
Project evaluation failed including an error in afterEvaluate {}. Run with --stacktrace for details of the afterEvaluate {} error.
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* Where:
Build file 'C:\flutter\.pub-cache\hosted\pub.dartlang.org\audioplayers-0.19.0\android\build.gradle' line: 25
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'audioplayers'.
> Failed to apply plugin [id 'kotlin-android']
> The current Gradle version 4.10.2 is not compatible with the Kotlin Gradle plugin. Please use Gradle 5.3 or newer, or the previous version of the Kotlin plugin.
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BUILD FAILED in 3s
Exception: The plugin audioplayers could not be built due to the issue above.
Exited (sigterm)
The weird thing is that when I go back to older versions of my app where I have not added google_mobile_ads, I still get a similar error.
I have tried changing the version of classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.0' in build.gradle from 3.5.0 to 4.0.1 and I still get the same error.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
I did three things, some of which solved the issue.