It's really frustrating that every time Android Studio suggests to upgrade your Gradle plugin -and you do- you end with a lot of problems.
I was advised to upgrade Gradle plugin from 8.2.2 to 8.3, and after that app stopped building.
The first thing I tried, to no avail, was git reset --hard HEAD to revert all modified config files to their respective previous state, but the same error still happens.
My app already uses minSdkVersion 26 in build.gradle, but as long as I can understand from the error stack-trace the problem could be happening in Apache POI and Apache log4j jar libraries, but I don't have a clue on how to deal with them, as they are apparently not part of my project, or at least not directly added by me.
These are the relevant parts of my error stack-trace:
AGPBI: {"kind":"error","text":"MethodHandle.invoke and MethodHandle.invokeExact are only supported starting with Android O (--min-api 26): Lorg/apache/logging/log4j/util/ServiceLoaderUtil;callServiceLoader(Ljava/lang/invoke/MethodHandles$Lookup;Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/ClassLoader;Z)Ljava/lang/Iterable;","sources":[{"file":"/Users/diego/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/9a05842052291609defaad6cb51ec0bd/transformed/jetified-log4j-api-2.21.1.jar"}],"tool":"D8"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"error","text":"MethodHandle.invoke and MethodHandle.invokeExact are only supported starting with Android O (--min-api 26): Lorg/apache/poi/poifs/nio/CleanerUtil;lambda$null$0(Ljava/lang/invoke/MethodHandle;Ljava/nio/ByteBuffer;)Ljava/lang/Throwable;","sources":[{"file":"/Users/diego/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/52819773c62ede0f70c689b16da3da7e/transformed/jetified-poi-5.2.5.jar"}],"tool":"D8"}
And more:
1: Task failed with an exception.
-----------
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':Services:mergeExtDexDebugAndroidTest'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':Services:debugAndroidTestRuntimeClasspath'.
> Failed to transform poi-5.2.5.jar (org.apache.poi:poi:5.2.5) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=true, dexing-enable-jacoco-instrumentation=false, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=24, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.libraryelements=jar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}.
> Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: /Users/diego/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/52819773c62ede0f70c689b16da3da7e/transformed/jetified-poi-5.2.5.jar.
> Error while dexing.
Increase the minSdkVersion to 26 or above.
> Failed to transform log4j-api-2.21.1.jar (org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:2.21.1) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=true, dexing-enable-jacoco-instrumentation=false, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=24, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.libraryelements=jar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}.
> Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: /Users/diego/.gradle/caches/transforms-3/9a05842052291609defaad6cb51ec0bd/transformed/jetified-log4j-api-2.21.1.jar.
> Error while dexing.
Increase the minSdkVersion to 26 or above.
This is my main module (app) build.gradle:
plugins {
id('dagger.hilt.android.plugin')
id('com.android.application')
id('kotlin-android')
id("com.google.devtools.ksp")
id('kotlin-kapt')
}
android {
compileSdk 34
def code
Properties versionProps = new Properties()
def versionPropsFile = file('version.properties')
if (versionPropsFile.exists())
versionProps.load(new FileInputStream(versionPropsFile))
code = (versionProps['VERSION_CODE'] ?: "0").toInteger()+ 1
packagingOptions {
resources {
pickFirsts += ['META-INF/LICENSE.txt']
excludes += ['META-INF/NOTICE.md', 'META-INF/LICENSE.md', 'META-INF/INDEX.LIST', 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES', 'META-INF/io.netty.versions.properties']
}
}
versionProps['VERSION_CODE'] = code.toString()
versionProps.store(versionPropsFile.newWriter(), null)
defaultConfig {
applicationId 'com.xxx.xxx'
minSdkVersion 26
targetSdkVersion 34
multiDexEnabled true
versionCode code
versionName "5.0." + code
compileOptions {
sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_17
targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_17
}
kotlinOptions {
jvmTarget = JavaVersion.VERSION_17
}
vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
}
bundle {
density {
// Different APKs are generated for devices with different screen densities; true by default.
enableSplit true
}
abi {
// Different APKs are generated for devices with different CPU architectures; true by default.
enableSplit true
}
language {
// This is disabled so that the App Bundle does NOT split the APK for each language.
// We're gonna use the same APK for all languages.
enableSplit false
}
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
shrinkResources false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
applicationVariants.all { variant ->
variant.outputs.all { output ->
project.ext { appName = 'xxx' }
def newName = 'xxx.apk'
outputFileName = new File("./build/", newName)
}
}
}
/*debug {
minifyEnabled false
shrinkResources false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
applicationVariants.all { variant ->
variant.outputs.all { output ->
project.ext { appName = 'xxx' }
def newName = 'xxx.apk'
outputFileName = new File("./build/", newName)
}
}
}*/
}
productFlavors {
}
dataBinding{
enabled = true
}
lint {
abortOnError false
checkReleaseBuilds false
}
namespace 'com.xxx.xxx'
}
dependencies {
api files('libs/achartengine-1.2.0.jar')
implementation 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:16.3.0'
//mail API 16
implementation 'com.sun.mail:android-mail:1.6.7'
implementation 'com.sun.mail:android-activation:1.6.7'
//apache commons text
implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-text', version: '1.11.0'
//Youtube player
implementation 'com.thefinestartist:ytpa:1.2.1'
//Font Selector List Preference
//api 'com.vanniktech:vntfontlistpreference:1.0.0'
//Rate my app
implementation 'com.github.hotchemi:android-rate:1.0.1'
//Support
implementation 'androidx.legacy:legacy-support-v4:1.0.0'
implementation 'androidx.cardview:cardview:1.0.0'
implementation 'androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:1.3.2'
implementation 'androidx.preference:preference-ktx:1.2.1'
implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.7.0-alpha03'
implementation 'androidx.activity:activity-ktx:1.8.2'
implementation 'androidx.fragment:fragment-ktx:1.6.2'
runtimeOnly('androidx.activity:activity-compose:1.8.2')
implementation 'androidx.fragment:fragment-ktx:1.6.2'
//Annotation
implementation 'androidx.annotation:annotation:1.7.1'
//AlertDialog
implementation 'com.github.d-max:spots-dialog:1.1@aar'
//glide animated gifs
implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.16.0'
implementation 'androidx.window:window:1.3.0-alpha02'
ksp 'com.github.bumptech.glide:ksp:4.16.0'
//circular score
implementation 'com.wssholmes.stark:circular-score:0.1.1'
implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.11.0'
implementation 'com.github.mejdi14:Flat-Dialog-Android:1.0.5'
//picasso
implementation 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.71828'
//Stream
implementation 'com.annimon:stream:1.2.2'
//Multidex
implementation "androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1"
implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
//Hilt
implementation 'com.google.dagger:hilt-android:2.50'
implementation 'androidx.navigation:navigation-fragment-ktx:2.7.7'
kapt 'com.google.dagger:hilt-android-compiler:2.50'
kapt('org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-metadata-jvm:0.9.0')
kapt 'androidx.hilt:hilt-compiler:1.1.0'
//modelmapper
implementation 'org.modelmapper:modelmapper:3.2.0'
//volley
implementation 'com.android.volley:volley:1.2.1'
//openai
implementation 'com.aallam.openai:openai-client:3.7.0'
implementation('io.ktor:ktor-client-android:2.3.8')
implementation platform('com.aallam.openai:openai-client-bom:3.7.0')
//glide animated gifs
implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.16.0'
//audio visualizer
implementation('io.github.gautamchibde:audiovisualizer:2.2.7')
//jsoup
implementation 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.17.2'
//moshi
implementation('com.squareup.moshi:moshi:1.15.1')
ksp('com.squareup.moshi:moshi-kotlin:1.15.1')
ksp('com.squareup.moshi:moshi-kotlin-codegen:1.15.1')
implementation project(':DTO')
implementation project(':Common')
implementation project(':Background')
implementation project(':Core')
implementation project(':Services')
}
I don't know if it might be relevant, but before upgrading Gradle, I upgraded Android Studio to Iguana | 2023.2.1
How can I make my app build again?
Considering that the build is failing when executing the :Services:mergeExtDexDebugAndroidTest task, then most likely the build.gradle of the Services module does have a minSdkVersion lower than 26.
Please make sure that all the other modules have minSdk greater than (or equal to) 26.