[FIXED] "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"

Issue

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?

Solution

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

Answered By - Sir Codesalot