[Flutter] How to resolve "Android Gradle plugin requires Java 11 to run. You are currently...

I imported a Flutter project into Visual Studio Code, and when I tried to run it, I got this error message:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

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  Where: Build file '/home/omer358/FlutterProjects/MyProjects/ConverterNOW/android/app/build.gradle' line: 24
  
  
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  What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating project ':app'.
  

Failed to apply plugin 'com.android.internal.application'. Android Gradle plugin requires Java 11 to run. You are currently using Java 1.8. You can try some of the following options: - changing the IDE settings. - changing the JAVA_HOME environment variable. - changing org.gradle.java.home in gradle.properties.
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  Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
  
  
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  Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
  

BUILD FAILED in 22s Exception: Gradle task assembleDebug failed with exit code 1
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I searched for some solutions, one of them suggested that I'm using java1.8 but that was not the case; omer358@OMO:~/FlutterProjects/MyProjects/ConverterNOW/android$ ./gradlew --version returns:

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Gradle 7.0.2
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Build time: 2021-05-14 12:02:31 UTC
Revision: 1ef1b260d39daacbf9357f9d8594a8a743e2152e

Kotlin: 1.4.31
Groovy: 3.0.7
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.9 compiled on September 27 2020
JVM: 11.0.14 (Ubuntu 11.0.14+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.22.10)
OS: Linux 5.13.0-35-generic amd64
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Can you help me make go away?

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