Getting error while building app in android studio

Question

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:checkDebugAarMetadata'.

Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'. Could not find com.android.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0. Searched in the following locations: - https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/android/appcompat/appcompat/1.2.0/appcompat-1.2.0.pom - https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/android/appcompat/appcompat/1.2.0/appcompat-1.2.0.pom Required by: project:app

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Answer 1

Just replace com.android.appcompat:appcompat with androidx.appcompat:appcompat in your build.gradle file