How Do I download Android Gradle Plugin 7.4?

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How Do I download Android Gradle Plugin 7.4?

As I was making this post, this web forum times out and logged me out and all my work was lost. So I am going to save this as I type.

For starters, Android Studio is dealing with two kinds of Gradle as seen in the Project Structure:


Luckily, I found on the developer.android.com site, some information regarding the relationship between thest two things. Android Gradle plugin 8.5 release notes  |  Android Studio  |  Android Developers

And, on this page, I found this table which tells me what version of the plug-in I need.

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So, where do I find this?

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You can get the gradle versions from here.
Note that Gradle version is different from Android Gradle Plugin version. Yea! Stupid naming!

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I had to launch android studio in priv mode and upgrade from there. But I made it all work.

Note to future self and others: You can do the upgrade in the IDE but you have to launch android studio in privledged mode from the command line. And android studio is a shel script .sh in the bin directory of Android studio. So it is something like:

sudo ./android.sh