Flutter — Execution failed for task ‘:camera:compileDebugJavaWithJavac’

Flutter camera: ^0.9.4+4 plugin fails in Flutter version 2.5.2 & minSdkVersion 21

Error:

C:\Users\xxx\Documents\SDKs\flutter\.pub-cache\hosted\pub.dartlang.org\camera-0.9.4+4\android\src\main\java\io\flutter\plugins\camera\Camera.java:23: error: cannot find symbol
import android.media.EncoderProfiles;
                    ^
  symbol:   class EncoderProfiles
  location: package android.media
C:\Users\xxx\Documents\SDKs\flutter\.pub-cache\hosted\pub.dartlang.org\camera-0.9.4+4\android\src\main\java\io\flutter\plugins\camera\Camera.java:935: error: cannot find symbol
  EncoderProfiles getRecordingProfile() {
...

Solution:

Update your compileSdkVersion and targetSdkVersion to 31, in path ./android/app/build.gradle.

Hope this helped 🙏

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