Creating this topic to catch any typos and bugs in the 4th Edition of Flutter Apprentice.
General issue - You are applying Flutter’s app_plugin_loader Gradle plugin imperatively using the apply script method, which is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
I see that the code has not yet been migrated according to Deprecated imperative apply of Flutter's Gradle plugins | Flutter. I just loaded chapter 7 (that’s where I was in the 3rd edition) and I haven’t check the previous chapters.
I am running Flutter 3.19.3 and trying to get it started on Android.
Thanks for reporting this.
This has been introduced after Flutter 3.16, which we based the book on.
The app still works so it’s not a “blocking” issue per se, but the only solution is to follow the instructions here Deprecated imperative apply of Flutter's Gradle plugins | Flutter