"Module was compiled with an incompatible version of Kotlin. The binary version of its metadata is 1.5.1, expected version is 1.1.16"

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I am a beginner in Kotlin App Development. The following error is occurred when I tried to build the app -

e: C:/Users/Lenovo/.gradle/caches/transforms-2/files-2.1/32f0bb3e96b47cf79ece6482359b6ad2/jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.5.0.jar!/META-INF/kotlin-stdlib-jdk7.kotlin_module: Module was compiled with an incompatible version of Kotlin. The binary version of its metadata is 1.5.1, expected version is 1.1.16

Is it about updating the module? Then how to update it?

In my case problem occurs with the Jetpack DataStore library. I removed it and rebuild. the problem removed, but don't able to know why this happens.!!! — Zeeshan Akhtar, Jul 08 '21 at 02:46
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/285551/why-not-upload-images-of-code-errors-when-asking-a-question/285557#285557 — Stephan Vierkant, Jul 12 '21 at 19:20

Ali Raza · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-22T11:12:23.960

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For someone who is still looking for answer to this, here is the working solution for this problem. In your project level open build.gradle file, increase the ext.kotlin_version from whatever current version that you have like 1.5.0, to the latest stable version 1.6.0 (Whatever is latest at that time). Thanks

You can get latest version from here:

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/releases.html#release-details

edited Apr 22 '22 at 11:12

answered Jun 03 '21 at 06:51

Ali Raza

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It does work, but could you please tell me how it works. – Justin Jun 04 '21 at 02:30
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From what I think, Sometimes, Android Studio stops supporting Kotlin Older versions, especially when your android studio is up to date. This is just my thinking, I also don't know the exact reason. But this solution works for sure everytime. – Ali Raza Jun 05 '21 at 10:37
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In My case, this problem arose, when I updated some plugins in Android Studio. – Ali Raza Jun 05 '21 at 10:40
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Yes changing the version of `gradle-6.7.1` to `gradle-6.9` in `gradle-wraper-properties` file and also changing the `ext.kotlin-version = '1.4.32'` resolve the issue. – Akki Jangir Jul 25 '21 at 18:47
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Setting to `1.5.31` in a `flutter@2.5.2` project fixed it for me. – Nick Ribal Oct 08 '21 at 15:19
With `Kotlin v1.6.0`, if you are using `Moshi` library you need to update it to `v1.13.0`. Also with `Moshi v1.13.0`, you need to update `Gradle` and `AGP` to `v7.+` or disable Jetifier for `Moshi` library as a workaround! See this https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/184622491 – YUSMLE Dec 14 '21 at 15:43
```./gradlew cleanBuildCache``` – Saugat Rai Feb 21 '22 at 07:17
This works if you use `kotlin_version` property somewhere for version – wMaN Feb 22 '22 at 08:28
in my case latest version 1.6.10 is not work, but 1.6.0 is works fine. – 9Dragons Mar 30 '22 at 23:36
Worked like a charm! – Taslim Oseni Apr 13 '22 at 07:58
This dependencies type in flutter is a mood killer – zmeul Apr 21 '22 at 10:22

Sir Codesalot · Answer 2 · 2021-05-23T07:19:05.990

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Happened to me when updating from Kotlin 1.4.30 to 1.5.0. Seems to be some sort of Gradle caching issue. I was able to resolve it by updating Gradle from 6.7.1 to 6.9 (or any other version).

Just go to gradle-wrapper.properties and change this line from

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.7.1-all.zip

to

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9-all.zip

edited May 23 '21 at 07:19

answered May 10 '21 at 12:18

Sir Codesalot

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Don't do this. Just follow Ali Raza's answer. – Kishan Solanki Jul 28 '21 at 16:01
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@KishanSolanki could you please explain why? Ali Raza's answer didn't help me! – Sir Codesalot Jul 29 '21 at 07:23
Ali's answer didn't work for me either error remained the same – marchinram Oct 19 '21 at 16:32
Many answers and comments are very specific to versions that are now outdated. A more generic answer would have been more helpful. – Ingo Steinke Apr 23 '22 at 09:23

score 21 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 28 '21 at 15:58

I was facing same issue in IntelliJ IDEA Version: Ultimate 2019.3

Issue occurred when I changed jar version multiple times and click on debug button to run the application.

Issue fixed when i used below steps:

Open IntelliJ >> Build >> Rebuild Project.

After that I run the application again and it worked for me.

score 13 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 21 '21 at 01:22

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I updated kotlin versions to latest and it helped me.

Here

And fixed yellow prompt by Android Studio from this implementation "androidx.core:core-ktx:+" to this implementation "androidx.core:core-ktx:1.5.0"

answered Jun 21 '21 at 01:22

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https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/285551/why-should-i-not-upload-images-of-code-data-errors-when-asking-a-question/285557#285557 – Winter May 12 '22 at 20:56

score 8 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 08 '21 at 07:01

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In my case Problem occurs when I upgrade androidx.core:core-ktx:1.3.1 to androidx.core:core-ktx:1.6.0

In release notes of this library mentioned that

Note: Core and Core-ktx Version 1.5.0 and above versions will only compile against the Android 11 SDK.**

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/core#core_and_core-ktx_version_150_2

Solution: downgrade your library below to 1.5.0 and sync. if this is the case then the error will be gone.

edited Jul 08 '21 at 07:01

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answered Jul 08 '21 at 06:56

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This is the best answer to solve the problem. – thiagolsilva Aug 25 '21 at 21:32

score 5 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 08 '21 at 11:40

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Go project build.gradle and update "ext.kotlin_version = 1.5.0"

answered Oct 08 '21 at 11:40

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methodsignature · Answer 7 · 2021-10-06T13:48:46.360

I had to update the Kotlin Gradle plugin to match Kotlin standard library. In {project}/build.gradle.

buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:{kotlin version}"
    }
}

I also removed callout to dependency on standard library as that is now baked into Gradle based on my dependencies, though this is less directly related. Delete this line in {project}/{app module}/build.gradle:

dependencies {
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:{kotlin version}"
    ...
}

Reference: Exception Error blog post

score 3 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 17 '21 at 07:57

This happened to me today when I added a new project to an existing big project with latest Android Studio, but I could not find the above-mentioned ext.kotlin_version anywhere to fix it. Anyway, after comparing the build.gradle file with the one from a new standalone project that works fine, I found out that changing 1.6.0 in here:

dependencies {
    implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.6.0'
    ...
}

to 1.3.2 fixes the issue:

dependencies {

    implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.3.2'
    ...
}

score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Jun 08 '21 at 11:42

Recently my Jenkins build was failing with similar lines of error messages. And tried below to mitigate the issue:

Possible Reasons:

Offline work mode is ON in the Gradle settings options which failing some dependencies while compilation
Updated Android Studio stop supporting older Kotlin version. (very less likely)
Incompatible Gradle distribution version wrt Gradle plugin (com.android.tools.build:gradle)
Gradle caching issue
From the error statement it seems the module was compiled with an incompatible version of Kotlin. For example you have added some sdk dependency in your project which was compiled with different (incompatible) kotlin version than your app is using.

Possible Solutions:

Offline work mode should be turned OFF in the Gradle settings options,
Restart the Kotlin plugin and restart the Android Studio
Remove/upgrade the newly added sdk dependency from your project
Validate if the Gradle distribution version is compatible with Android grade plugin here
Change the “distributionUrl” url according to latest version (or higher version) in gradle-wrapper.properties
Command Line (better way): `./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version X.Y.Z'.

Manual: change the distributionUrl property in the Wrapper’s gradle-wrapper.properties file.

find the latest version of Gradle that is going to use in gradle-wrapper.properties from here
Upgrade the Kotlin version: The ext.kotlin.version from whatever version you have, to '1.4.32' or whatever the latest version is available here

Please note there could be many possible reason and so that the solution. In My case the combination of solution#5 & 6 worked well.

Yup, #5 & 6 for me as well – galaxigirl May 22 '22 at 14:40 — galaxigirl, May 22 '22 at 14:40

Tor Brick · Answer 10 · 2022-01-12T23:10:57.100

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After putting off dealing with this for almost a year, the solution was very easy to implement after finding.

I had to replace the deprecated jcenter() with mavenCentral() in my build.gradle file in the "repositories" section.

edited Jan 12 '22 at 23:10

answered Jan 04 '22 at 04:27

Tor Brick

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score 1 · Answer 11 · edited Jul 04 '21 at 05:09

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For me I had to update Android Studio to 4.2.2. Update gradle to 7.0. As well as perform the kotlin migration(might not have had anything to do with it). And lastly updated my ext.kotlin_version to 1.5.20. After all of that I invalidated caches and restarted Android studio.

edited Jul 04 '21 at 05:09

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answered Jul 02 '21 at 02:20

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score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Sep 16 '21 at 16:39

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For me updating the kotlin plugin, kotlin version and distribution url worked

kotlin_version = '1.4.32'

AND

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9.1-all.zip

answered Sep 16 '21 at 16:39

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score 1 · Answer 13 · answered Dec 15 '21 at 13:12

If anyone face this issue in future kindly check the following versions of dependencies and classpath

ext.kotlin_version = "1.4.32"

Esure that the gradle-wrapper.properties has the compitable distribution url with your kotlin version

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9-bin.zip

App level build.gradle check

implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.5.0'
implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android:1.4.3'

Note: Check these dependencies it might be causing the issue, In my case coroutines-android was using 1.6.0-RC2 which is very latest version of coroutine then I checked the github releases and got the right version for my project gradle configuration

You can check the kotlinx-coroutines-android version from github releases section

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/releases

You can also check the core-ktx version from developer.android.com

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/core

score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Dec 19 '21 at 00:31

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I had this problem yesterday. The solution is to change the kotlin version in build.gradle to 1.5.0 and change the Gradle version in the project structure to 6.9.

ext.kotlinVersion = '1.5.0'

answered Dec 19 '21 at 00:31

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score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Jan 28 '22 at 14:41

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After 4 hours testing different versions of Kotlin being my project NOT A KOTLIN PROJECT this solution solved my life:

Go to Intellij and disable the Kotlin plugin. Then compile everything again.

answered Jan 28 '22 at 14:41

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For me this crashed AndroidStudio and it would not start anymore. I had to manually fix the disabled_plugins.txt to make it work again. – Paolo Brandoli Mar 07 '22 at 20:06
Oh I am sorry to hear that! – Charly Monzon Mar 15 '22 at 22:20
Android studio stopped opening – Richa Apr 05 '22 at 07:56
On IntelliJ and not using or care about kotlin at all, disabling kotlin puglin actually works! This gives me a hint that the issue might be coming from intellij plugin that use kotlin. – Donnie Apr 28 '22 at 07:03

score 1 · Answer 16 · edited Jun 01 '22 at 04:45

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Uncleared Gradle cache could also be an issue. I faced this same issue and resolved it by deleting .gradle/caches directory in the root folder.

Steps:

Delete caches directory in the location, [RootFolder]/.gradle/caches
Do Invalidate Caches And Restart
Rebuild project

Refer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23029580/10506244

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score 1 · Answer 17 · answered May 09 '22 at 11:16

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In your build.gradle file, increase the ext.kotlin_version to 1.6.0

ext.kotlin_version = '1.6.0'

answered May 09 '22 at 11:16

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score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Jul 17 '21 at 06:08

I just updated everything to the latest version. And the latest mentioned by the android studio itself.

e.g

    ext.kotlin_version = '1.5.20'

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.2'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
        classpath "androidx.navigation:navigation-safe-args-gradle-plugin:2.4.0-alpha04"
    }

And

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.9-all.zip

In gradle-wrapper.properties

Кobak · Answer 19 · 2021-12-22T01:31:29.057

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Create new project again helped for me :| And if you need to fix another project you may try copy android/build.gradle and android/app/build.gradle from new flutter project template to an other project.

edited Dec 22 '21 at 01:31

answered Dec 20 '21 at 23:30

Кobak

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score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Mar 19 '22 at 11:15

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Finally, the working solution is that we need to upgrade your kotlin version from your project build.gradle file.

answered Mar 19 '22 at 11:15

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score 0 · Answer 21 · answered May 26 '22 at 16:03

The actual issue why this happens is because of incompatibility with the kotlin compiler version and the gradle plugin version

I spawned up a new Android project in Chipmunk and I find that the kotlin_version variable under the ext block is not there and build.gradle will hardcode the kotlin version

So change your build.gradle (global) like this

buildscript {
    ext {
        compose_version = '1.2.0-beta02'
        kotlin_version = '1.6.21'// This might be missing, you can add it
    }
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath "com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.2.0"
    


// Do not hardcode this version, instead make it rely on the global variable you declared on top

//No
//classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.4.20"
//Yes
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
        classpath "com.google.dagger:hilt-android-gradle-plugin:2.38.1"
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

"Module was compiled with an incompatible version of Kotlin. The binary version of its metadata is 1.5.1, expected version is 1.1.16"

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