[fix] Deprecated gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle X.0

Error:

If you get the above error/warning message for your Java Project with a Gradle Build tool on IntelliJ IDE (say Android Studio) then you can do one of the below steps to resolve this issue.

Update Gradle Wrapper (Android Studio)

1. Open your project in Android Studio IDE
2. Go to the gradle/wrapper directory in your project folder.
3. Open the file gradle-wrapper.properties.
4. Change the distributionUrl to Gradle version as per below compatibility table.

   distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-<version>-bin.zip

   Example:

   #Fri Aug 18 16:53:39 CST 2023
   distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
   distributionPath=wrapper/dists
   distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.0-bin.zip
   zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
   zipStorePath=wrapper/dists

   

   Plugin Version	Minimum Required Gradle Version
   8.3	8.3
   8.2	8.2
   8.1	8.0
   8.0	8.0
   7.4	7.5
   7.3	7.4
   7.2	7.3.3
   7.1	7.2
   7.0	7.0
   4.2.0+	6.7.1
   4.1.0+	6.5+
   4.0.0+	6.1.1+
   3.6.0 - 3.6.4	5.6.4+
   3.5.0 - 3.5.4	5.4.1+
   3.4.0 - 3.4.3	5.1.1+
   3.3.0 - 3.3.3	4.10.1+
   3.2.0 - 3.2.1	4.6+
   3.1.0+	4.4+
   3.0.0+	4.1+
   2.3.0+	3.3+
   2.1.3 - 2.2.3	2.14.1 - 3.5
   2.0.0 - 2.1.2	2.10 - 2.13
   1.5.0	2.2.1 - 2.13
   1.2.0 - 1.3.1	2.2.1 - 2.9
   1.0.0 - 1.1.3	2.2.1 - 2.3

   Reference: https://developer.android.com/build/releases/gradle-plugin

Update build.gradle script

1. Open the build.gradle file in your project folder.
2. Make sure that the Gradle plugin version specified in the build.gradle file is compatible with Gradle X.0 for which you are getting the error.

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