Android - App not running. Error : The minCompileSdk specified in a dependency's AAR metadata is greater than this module's compileSdkVersion

Issue

A week ago the app was running perfectly but all of a sudden (without updating anything) the app is not running.

I am getting this error when I try to run the app

The minCompileSdk (31) specified in a dependency's AAR metadata (META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties) is greater than this module's compileSdkVersion (android-30). Dependency: androidx.work:work-runtime:2.7.0-beta01. AAR metadata file: /home/kishan/.gradle/caches/transforms-2/files-2.1/af85edd7f0482dfc2b2e0c9a0519784e/work-runtime-2.7.0-beta01/META-INF/com/android/build/gradle/aar-metadata.properties.

Here is the screenshot for the same:

From my app level gradle file, I can see that I am having

compileSdkVersion 30 and targetSdkVersion 30

Not sure what is causing this issue.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank You!

Solution

Ok So finally I resolve this issue.

The issue was because of the dependency androidx.work:work-runtime But I would like to first mention that I was not using that dependency in my project directly (not added in my app level gradle), probably some other dependency was using that internally.

So what I did is forcefully downgraded its version by adding this

configurations.all {
        resolutionStrategy { force 'androidx.work:work-runtime:2.6.0' }
    }

inside

android {
 defaultConfig {
   //here
 }
}

and it resolved my issue.

Answered By - Kishan Solanki