Flutter geolocator plugin telling me to update kotlin version

I’ve added the geolocator plugin to my flutter app, but it errors out and tells me Your project requires a newer version of the Kotlin Gradle plugin. I’ve just created this project, so am using the latest version of flutter, with all the android build.gradle changes. I’m using geolocator: ^12.0.0, i’ve tried setting the ext.kotlin_version = '2.0.0' in android>build.gradle but the outcome is the same, whether I have explicitly set the version or not

android>build.gradle

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '2.0.0'

    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.4.2'  // Use the latest version available
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.15'  // Use the latest version available
    }
}

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

rootProject.buildDir = "../build"
subprojects {
    project.buildDir = "${rootProject.buildDir}/${project.name}"
}
subprojects {
    project.evaluationDependsOn(":app")
}

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

Full error

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:compileReleaseKotlin'.
> A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.compilerRunner.GradleCompilerRunnerWithWorkers$GradleKotlinCompilerWorkAction
   > Compilation error. See log for more details

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BUILD FAILED in 11s
Running Gradle task 'assembleRelease'...                           11.8s

┌─ Flutter Fix ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ [!] Your project requires a newer version of the Kotlin Gradle plugin.                            │
│ Find the latest version on https://kotlinlang.org/docs/releases.html#release-details, then update │
│ /Users/user/Desktop/Folders/apps/app/android/build.gradle:                  │
│ ext.kotlin_version = '<latest-version>'                                                           │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Gradle task assembleRelease failed with exit code 1