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[!] Your project requires a newer version of the Kotlin Gradle plugin.

So since moving to flutter 2.8 I have come across this error in a few of my new projects. The project is basically mad because it wants a higher version of Kotlin. I have also seen this happen in a few of my CI/CD flows on Codemagic.

Now the fix:

1. Open up your project level build.gradle file: Android > build.gradle
2. In the buildscript area you will see a specification for ext.kotlin_version
3. We need to change that to version: "1.6.10"

That should sort you out. Hope this helps someone 👍🏾

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