android studio and kotlin , how to get kotlin serialization working

[akmishra_99]

I am working on creating a app using android studio ( version 4.0.1) using kotline(version 1.4.10) , I am not able to get kotlin serialization working , here is my build.gradle file entry

apply plugin: 'kotlinx-serialization'

here is error message which I get

Plugin with id 'kotlinx-serialization' not found.

I am new to android studio and kotline

what I need to do so that I can get kotlin serialization working

-Thanks