android - "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"

Question

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?

Answer 1

for someone who is still looking for answer to this, here is the working solution for this problem. In your project level gradle file, just increase the ext.kotlin.version from whatever version you have, to '1.4.32' or whatever the latest version is available. Thanks