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You need to temporarily add following to your build.gradle:

tasks.withType(KotlinCompile).configureEach {
    kotlinOptions {
        freeCompilerArgs += [
                "-Xjvm-default=all",
        ]
    }
}

Note that in certain circumstances you may want to use all-compatibility instead of all, learn more about that in Jebrain's blogpost.

Starting with kotlin 1.6.20 you won't need touch build.gradle for more information see KT-47000

I have tried adding the code in various places in my Module level build.gradle but keep receiving the error

Caused by: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: Could not get unknown property 'KotlinCompile' for extension 'android' of type com.android.build.gradle.internal.dsl.BaseAppModuleExtension.
	at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.AbstractDynamicObject.getMissingProperty(AbstractDynamicObject.java:85)
	at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.ConfigureDelegate.getProperty(ConfigureDelegate.java:130)

Can you please provide a more detailed example of how to use the temporary code within a Module level build.gradle file?

This is what worked for me. Try adding the code to app level build.gradle file:

android {
   ...
   kotlinOptions {
       ...
       freeCompilerArgs += [
                "-Xjvm-default=all",
        ]
   }
}

Upgrading Kotlin to version 1.6.20 – as mentioned in comment #2 – fixed the problem for me. I did not need to add any compiler directives to my build.gradle file.