Because Jack does not generate intermediate class files when compiling an app, tools that depend on these files do not currently work with Jack. Some examples of these tools are:
I'm converting an old project which uses dagger-compiler and gradle-retrolambda to this new Jack thing so I can get rid of the retrolambda hack and having hard time getting the compileDebugJavaWithJack task to finish so was wondering if this was the issue.
See here: https://developer.android.com/preview/j8-jack.html
Relevant? quote:
I'm converting an old project which uses
dagger-compiler
andgradle-retrolambda
to this new Jack thing so I can get rid of the retrolambda hack and having hard time getting thecompileDebugJavaWithJack
task to finish so was wondering if this was the issue.