issue in building apk

[2santoshbhatt]

Task :app:mergeExtDexDebug FAILED ERROR:: D8: Static interface methods are only supported starting with Android N (--min-api 24): Landroidx/browser/trusted/TrustedWebActivityDisplayMode;fromBundle(Landroid/os/Bundle;)Landroidx/browser/trusted/TrustedWebActivityDisplayMode; ERROR:: D8: Default interface methods are only supported starting with Android N (--min-api 24): Landroidx/core/internal/view/SupportMenuItem;setTooltipText(Ljava/lang/CharSequence;)Landroid/view/MenuItem;

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:mergeExtDexDebug'.

  Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'. Failed to transform browser-1.3.0.aar (androidx.browser:browser:1.3.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.dependency.bundling=external, org.gradle.libraryelements=aar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\0369438ee9dba5c8911b4128c8770ef5\transformed\browser-1.3.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

  Failed to transform core-1.6.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.6.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.dependency.bundling=external, org.gradle.libraryelements=aar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\d64e93f4fd25625f249e48f770a7a7b0\transformed\core-1.6.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

  Failed to transform core-1.6.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.6.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\d64e93f4fd25625f249e48f770a7a7b0\transformed\core-1.6.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

  Failed to transform core-1.6.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.6.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\d64e93f4fd25625f249e48f770a7a7b0\transformed\core-1.6.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

  Failed to transform core-1.6.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.6.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\d64e93f4fd25625f249e48f770a7a7b0\transformed\core-1.6.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

  Failed to transform core-1.6.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.6.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\d64e93f4fd25625f249e48f770a7a7b0\transformed\core-1.6.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

  Failed to transform core-1.6.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.6.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\d64e93f4fd25625f249e48f770a7a7b0\transformed\core-1.6.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

  Failed to transform core-1.6.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.6.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\d64e93f4fd25625f249e48f770a7a7b0\transformed\core-1.6.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

  Failed to transform core-1.6.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.6.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\d64e93f4fd25625f249e48f770a7a7b0\transformed\core-1.6.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

  Failed to transform core-1.6.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.6.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\d64e93f4fd25625f249e48f770a7a7b0\transformed\core-1.6.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

  Failed to transform core-1.6.0.aar (androidx.core:core:1.6.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-dex, asm-transformed-variant=NONE, dexing-enable-desugaring=false, dexing-incremental-transform=true, dexing-is-debuggable=true, dexing-min-sdk=22, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. Execution failed for DexingNoClasspathTransform: C:\Users\santo.gradle\caches\transforms-3\d64e93f4fd25625f249e48f770a7a7b0\transformed\core-1.6.0-runtime.jar. Error while dexing. The dependency contains Java 8 bytecode. Please enable desugaring by adding the following to build.gradle android { compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 1.8 targetCompatibility 1.8 } } See https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support.html for details. Alternatively, increase the minSdkVersion to 24 or above.

[santinello31]

I'm also getting the above error when building. Was a solution found or is there a workaround. Tried suggestions in error message and plugin still won't build. Thanks.