Cannot run Flutter app on Android emulator, no matter how hard I try, and keep getting more and more errors

ok, im sorry if this has been asked before, but.. i have literally been messing around with both android studio and visual studio code for days now, trying to figure this out, and haven’t been able to do it.

what i’ve been trying to do is make a flutter app, right (which im trying to integrate with firebase as well). im able to test it on microsoft edge fine, but… considering im aiming for a mobile app, i want to be able to test it using the emulator. but, no matter how many times i downloaded a new gradle version, or changed the java jdk i was using, changed the environmental variables regarding both jdk and gradle, reworded my code in my build.gradle/gradle-wrapper.properties/settings.gradle files, tried to rebuild/sync over and over using flutter clean/flutter pub get, etc etc etc… nothing’s worked. and ive tried looking up solutions on here already but. it seems like everything i try hasnt been working, so… im desperate at this point, honestly. i really need to figure this out like asap :/

whenever i try running my flutter app in the emulator, i get errors like this: "Warning: SDK processing. This version only understands SDK XML versions up to 3 but an SDK XML file of version 4 was encountered. This can happen if you use versions of Android Studio and the command-line tools that were released at different times."

however… i literally have updated my sdk tools in android studio countless times already. i even uninstalled and reinstalled both android studio and cmdline-tools multiple times, and have updated the code in my files to reflect those changes.

details i can give:

1. from running flutter doctor, Android SDK version is 34.0.0

2. java jdk is jdk-17 (since i heard android studio includes JDK 17 as its bundled Java version, figured this would work better for compatibility)

3. gradle for my system is 8.0.1

build.gradle (app):

plugins {
    id "com.android.application"
    id "kotlin-android"
    id "com.google.gms.google-services" // Google services plugin
    id "dev.flutter.flutter-gradle-plugin" // Flutter plugin
}

android {
    namespace = "com.flutterapp.name"
    compileSdk = 34
    ndkVersion = "25.1.8937393"

    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
        targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
    }

    kotlinOptions {
        jvmTarget = "17"
    }

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId = "com.flutterapp.name"
        minSdkVersion = 23
        targetSdkVersion = 34
        versionCode = 1
        versionName = "1.0.0"
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            signingConfig = signingConfigs.debug
            minifyEnabled false
            shrinkResources false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation platform('com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:32.3.0')
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-storage'
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:20.4.0'
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:18.0.0'

    implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
    implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.12.0'
}


flutter {
    source = "../.."
}

build.gradle (android):

buildscript {
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2'
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.15'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.9.10"
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
}

rootProject.buildDir = "../build"
subprojects {
    project.buildDir = "${rootProject.buildDir}/${project.name}"
}

tasks.register("clean", Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

(also, i have "distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.1-all.zip" in gradle-wrapper.properties, and flutter doctor doesn’t reveal any obvious errors either )

what am I doing wrong here? I dont understand what else I can do at this point… theres probably something Im missing but :(( im still kinda new to working with flutter, so.. please excuse me on that front, haha