Android Pre Dex: [XYZ.jar] Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/dexer/Main

Question

I am working on PhoneGap framework and trying to load old project of phonegap in IntelliJ 14.

When I load project, continuously getting the error :

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
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Android Pre Dex: [xyz.jar] Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/dexer/Main
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I have tried with below ways :

• Android SDK version tried with API 19 , 23 and with latest one as well
• Have tried on MAC and Windows both
• Project is getting compiled on the system from where it was created already
• Project is not based on Gradle.

If someone has face this issue, then please let me know

Answer 1

I have observed through various blogs and find the answer is that,

I need to set my java compiler version and target version 1.8 as '52.0.0' is pointing to the J2SE8. Ref from below mentioned URL : how to check the jdk version used to compile a .class file

Changed the Java compiler version and that has worked.

Hope so this works for the same problem.