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Picture this: You’re building an app in 2025, and you’ve got two shiny tools to pick from—Lynx JS and Kotlin. One’s a hot new player from ByteDance, promising lightning-fast performance. The other’s a trusted favorite, loved by Android developers everywhere.
You’re working on an exciting Flutter app, coding away, when suddenly—bam!—an error pops up: “Could not get unknown property ‘flutter’ for extension ‘android’ of type com.android.build.gradle.LibraryExtension.” Sounds like a mouthful, right? If you’re a developer (or even just dabbling in
Imagine you’re using your favorite Android app—maybe it’s a game, a social media tool, or a shopping app. Behind the scenes, that app relies on little helpers called SDKs to do things like show ads or track how you use
You’re working on a coding project—maybe an Android app or a Java program—and you hit “build.” Everything seems fine until an annoying message pops up: “Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 9.0.” Ugh,
If you’re a Flutter developer, you’ve probably hit this roadblock at some point: “Your project’s Gradle version is incompatible with the Java version that Flutter is using for Gradle.” It’s a frustrating error that can stop your app build dead
If you’re a developer or a business owner looking to build a cross-platform app, you’ve probably heard of Flutter. It’s been a big name in app development for years. But now, there’s a new kid on the block—Lynx JS (or
If you’re a developer working with Kotlin and Android Studio, you might have stumbled across this frustrating error: “A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.compilerRunner.GradleCompilerRunnerWithWorkers$GradleKotlinCompilerWorkAction”. It’s a mouthful, right? Don’t worry—this beginner-friendly guide will break it down for you in simple
Big news for app developers! ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, just dropped Lynx—a brand-new, open-source framework that’s shaking up the world of cross-platform app development. Inspired by heavyweights like Flutter and React Native, Lynx promises to make building apps for
If you’re building a React Native app with Expo in Bare Workflow and suddenly hit an error like “This version of the Compose Compiler requires Kotlin version X but you appear to be using Kotlin version Y”, you’re not alone!
If you’re a Flutter developer, you might have run into this confusing error: “You are applying Flutter’s app_plugin_loader Gradle plugin imperatively using the apply script method, which is not possible anymore. Migrate to applying Gradle plugins with the declarative plugins.”