I am trying to build the android apk of a simple python flet application on my Windows 10 machine. However, despite the fact that I have installed Android Studio, flutter, Java SDK, gradle, accepted all the licences, and set all the system paths, I am still encountering the error below:

[13:08:01] 1 Failed to validate Flutter version.
           Flutter 3.27.4 installed ✅                                                                                                                      
[13:08:08] JDK installed ✅                                                                                                                                 
           Android SDK installed ✅                                                                                                                         
[13:08:29] Created Flutter bootstrap project from gh:flet-dev/flet-build-template with ref "0.27.6" ✅                                                      
[13:14:38] Packaged Python app ✅                                                                                                                           
[13:14:55] Customized app icons ✅                                                                                                                          
[13:15:38] Generated app icons ✅                                                                                                                           
           Customized app splash images ✅                                                                                                                  
[13:16:04] Generated splash screens ✅                                                                                                                      
[13:16:48] 
           Running Gradle task 'assembleRelease'...
           Running Gradle task 'assembleRelease'...                           32.8s


           FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

           * What went wrong:
           Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration 'classpath'.
           > Failed to transform gradle-1.0.0.jar (project :gradle) to match attributes {artifactType=jar, .gradle.category=library,
           .gradle.dependency.bundling=external, .gradle.internal.hierarchy-collected=false,
           .gradle.internal.instrumented=instrumented-project-dependency, .gradle.jvm.version=17, .gradle.libraryelements=jar,
           .gradle.usage=java-runtime}.
              > Could not read workspace metadata from C:\Users\IFEANYI\.gradle\caches\transforms-4\3693a314d72045c583dc22f194ba8794\metadata.bin

           * Try:
           > Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
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           BUILD FAILED in 7s
           Gradle task assembleRelease failed with exit code 1

[13:17:08] Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
           [√] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.27.4, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.5247], locale en-NG)
           [√] Windows Version (Installed version of Windows is version 10 or higher)
           [√] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 35.0.1)
           [√] Chrome - develop for the web
           [√] Visual Studio - develop Windows apps (Visual Studio Build Tools 2019 16.11.45)
           [√] Android Studio (version 2024.3)
           [√] Connected device (3 available)
           [√] Network resources

           • No issues found!

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮│ Error building Flet app - see the log of failed command above.     

I have even tried downgrading my flet package to version 0.24, but that could not even interact with my pyproject.toml file. I have also tried out the suggestions in this SO post to no avail.

Please if anybody has any idea on what to do, I would really appreciate your sharing. Thanks!