What is the fix for could not resolve com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1. in flutter vscode?

Question

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring project ':audioplayers'.

Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':audioplayers:classpath'. Could not resolve com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1. Required by: project :audioplayers > Could not resolve com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1. > Could not get resource 'https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/4.0.1/gradle-4.0.1.pom'. > Could not GET 'https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/tools/build/gradle/4.0.1/gradle-4.0.1.pom'. > The server may not support the client's requested TLS protocol versions: (TLSv1.2, TLSv1.3). You may need to configure the client to allow other protocols to be used. See: https://docs.gradle.org/7.2/userguide/build_environment.html#gradle_system_properties > Remote host terminated the handshake Failed to notify project evaluation listener. Could not get unknown property 'android' for project ':audioplayers' of type org.gradle.api.Project. Could not find method implementation() for arguments [project ':path_provider'] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

Answer 1

Need to enable other protocol versions for fetching from Maven repo, add the following

allowInsecureProtocol = true

in your project build.gradle file

  repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral(){
            allowInsecureProtocol = true
        }
    }

Answer 2

This error when happening the android studio can not update the Gradle file from their servers see this link to solve here