Android API level 31 error - Execution failed for task ':app:kaptDebugKotlin'

Question

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
2022-02-01T10:52:30.421+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] 
2022-02-01T10:52:30.421+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] * What went

wrong: 2022-02-01T10:52:30.421+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] Execution failed for task ':app:kaptDebugKotlin'. 2022-02-01T10:52:30.421+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] > A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.internal.KaptExecution 2022-02-01T10:52:30.421+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] > java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException (no error message) 2022-02-01T10:52:30.421+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] 2022-02-01T10:52:30.421+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] * Try: 2022-02-01T10:52:30.421+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] Run with --scan to get full insights. 2022-02-01T10:52:30.421+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] 2022-02-01T10:52:30.421+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] * Exception is: 2022-02-01T10:52:30.422+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':app:kaptDebugKotlin'.

Caused by: org.gradle.workers.internal.DefaultWorkerExecutor$WorkExecutionException:

A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.internal.KaptExecution Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.internal.KaptExecution.run(KaptWithoutKotlincTask.kt:179) Caused by: java.lang.AssertionError: annotationType(): unrecognized Attribute name MODULE (class com.sun.tools.javac.util.SharedNameTable$NameImpl) 2022-02-01T10:52:30.435+0530 [ERROR] [org.gradle.internal.buildevents.BuildExceptionReporter] at com.sun.tools.javac.util.Assert.error(Assert.java:133)

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Answer 1

You would need to update your gradle jdk to 11

settings/preferences > Build,Execution,Deployment > Build Tools > Gradle