Good Morning everyone. Can I please ask for assistance? I am trying to to run my app however, I am having trouble with gradle.

hi, it's hard to tell without the code that's failing, but it looks like you're trying to add a dependency on Kotlin stdlib? Can you share the code from the build.gradle, in particular on line 11?

While what Adam said about the stdlib being added automatically, the source of your problem is quite clear. You try to add a dependency to the

implementation

configuration, but you do not have any plugin applied that adds such a configuration like the Kotlin plugin, the Java plugin, one of the Android plugins, and so on. As the error says it is happening on the root project called

android

, and the typical setup you would copy from a book like your path suggests is to have an empty root project and a sub project called

app

where you have your actual code, you would have applied the relevant plugins in the sub project and thus also need to add the dependency there. Besides that, I highly recommend to use Kotlin DSL instead of Groovy DSL. By now it is the default DSL, you immediately get type-safe build scripts, actual helpful error messages when mess up the syntax, and amazingly better IDE support if you use a good IDE like IntelliJ IDEA or Android Studio. Also, be very critic on anything you read in a book about Gradle, especially if it has a certain age. Gradle is still evolving relatively quickly and things that were good practice or state of the art some time ago, are now discouraged bad practices. Hence you often find stale or bad advice online or in older books.