com.android.build.transform.api.TransformException

Question

I am trying to integrate Google sign in, in my app, I added these libraries:

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:8.1.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-plus:8.1.0'

Also add this to project build gradle:

classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:1.4.0-beta3'

Also add plugin to app build gradle:

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

then add required permissions but when I try to run my app, received this error:

    Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug'.
    com.android.build.transform.api.TransformException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: 
    org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2

score 313 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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Try adding multiDexEnabled true to your app build.gradle file.

 defaultConfig {
    multiDexEnabled true
}

EDIT:

Try Steve's answer first. In case it happens frequently or first step didn't help multiDexEnabled might help. For those who love to dig deeper here is couple similar issues (with more answers):

:app:dexDebug ExecException finished with non-zero exit value 2

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:dexDebug'. com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException

edited May 23 '17 at 12:02

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answered Sep 27 '15 at 18:04

JuliusScript

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Did not work for me. Steve's answer - Cleaning did the trick. I just upgraded to AS1.5 Preview – Scott Oct 13 '15 at 21:53
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To be fair you should always check whether an issue can be solved by cleaning. I am convinced this will help to those to whom cleaning did not do the trick. – JuliusScript Oct 13 '15 at 22:00
both of these didnt help for me - but restarting AS finally did the trick :) – Maciej Boguta Nov 20 '15 at 17:11
non of these helped me, but it started to work after I restarted AS – Maciej Boguta Nov 20 '15 at 17:17
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I would also advise checking out A Grandt's answer, below ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/33690032/1617737 ) before you jump in with this solution. – ban-geoengineering Dec 24 '15 at 00:00
Note, if you are using cordova or ionic to clean you run `projectdirectory/platforms/android/cordova/clean` – user3413723 Mar 11 '16 at 02:28

score 146 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 13 '15 at 09:58

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Another thing to watch for, is that you don't use

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:8.3.0'

That will import ALL the play services, and it'll only take little more than a hello world to exceed the 65535 method limit of a single dex APK.

Always specify only the services you need, for instance:

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:8.3.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-plus:8.3.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:8.3.0'

answered Nov 13 '15 at 09:58

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You are the best! This solved my problem. Rebuilding doesn't help in my case as mentioned in many of the solutions. As you mentioned the Google Play Services library has [a lot of subcomponents](https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup) and they should be imported just as you've said - one by one. Many thanks, again! – Ivan Caravanio Nov 19 '15 at 11:02
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I had this issue in the last couple of days. I thought I had only picked what I need. But, low and behold, after hours of looking I was importing all of play-services when all I wanted was play-services-ads. Definitely check your gradle dependencies people! – MCLLC Dec 20 '15 at 21:11
@A.Grandt could you add the [link](https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup) Ivan has given into your answer? It contains a list of names of all subcomponents and it should be part of the answer, because it's the next step everyone has to take. – Murmel Oct 05 '16 at 13:12

score 136 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 28 '15 at 14:54

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I just had to Clean my project and then it built successfully afterwards.

answered Sep 28 '15 at 14:54

Steve Ganem

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Thanks! It works flawlessly! The accepted answer would be weird as my project is far from reaching 65K method limit (which would need multidex). – Louis CAD Oct 06 '15 at 12:08
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Yep, cleaning was the way to go. AS 1.4 – Felipe Caldas Oct 16 '15 at 22:06
If you have library modules then clean all the modules across the project to have it working. Cleaning only individual modules didnt work for me. Clean the ENTIRE project. – Akh Mar 09 '16 at 20:49
Can someone tell me how do I clean the project? I've been trying lot of "combinations" and nothing works. I see everybody says "clean", but don't know how. Thx. – Alberto Rubio Sep 27 '16 at 16:29
@AlbertoRubio, under Build > Clean Project in AS toolbar. – Chantell Osejo Oct 27 '16 at 22:28
Didn't work me. Cleaning would be the first thing anyone tries anyway. – JohnyTex Dec 27 '16 at 08:56
the exception comes while running the app. Build is successful while cleaning or rebuild. – Uma Achanta Jan 06 '17 at 05:37

score 23 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

This error began appearing for me when I added some new methods to my project. I knew that I was nowhere near the 65k method limit and did not want to enable multiDex support for my project if I could help it.

I resolved it by increasing the memory available to the :app:transformClassesForDexForDebug task. I did this by specifying javaMaxHeapSize in gradle.build.

gradle.build

android {
    ...
    dexOptions {
        javaMaxHeapSize "4g" //specify the heap size for the dex process
    }
}

I tried this after having had no success with other common solutions to this problem:

Running a project clean
Manually deleting the /app/build and /build directories from my project
Invalidating Gradle Cache and restarting Android Studio

Error

Error:Execution failed for task > ':app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug'. com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command '/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

Note: increasing the memory available to the DEX task can cause performance problems on systems with lower memory - link.

This worked for me, just to specify the maximum heap size will solve the issue, thank you Maurice — Zeyad Assem, Feb 21 '16 at 10:05

score 8 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 15 '16 at 20:23

I also faced similar issue in Android Studio 1.5.1 and gradle 1.5.0. I just have to remove unwanted libraries from dependencies which may be automatically added in my app's build.gradle file. One was : compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:8.4.0'. So for best practices try to only include specific play services library like for ads include only

dependencies {
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:8.4.0'
}

Although

defaultConfig {
    multiDexEnabled true
}

this will also solve the issue, but provides with a lot of Notes in gradle console, making it confusing to find the other real issues during build

Narrowing my google api usage to just play-services-maps did the trick. Here is Google's official breakdown of the various components in the play-services API: https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup#add_google_play_services_to_your_project — jperl, Mar 27 '16 at 01:02

score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 23 '16 at 23:31

you can see the documentation of Android

android {
    compileSdkVersion 21
    buildToolsVersion "21.1.0"

    defaultConfig {
        ...
        minSdkVersion 14
        targetSdkVersion 21
        ...

        // Enabling multidex support.
        multiDexEnabled true
    }
    ...
}

dependencies {
  compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.0'
}

Manifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.android.multidex.myapplication">
    <application
        ...
        android:name="android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication">
        ...
    </application>
</manifest>

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 30 '16 at 07:19

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I'm using AS 1.5.1 and encountered the same problem. But just cleaning the project just wont do, so I tried something.

clean project
restart AS
Sync Project

This worked with me, so I hope this helps.

answered Jan 30 '16 at 07:19

kcNeko

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This would be pointless for projects which have exceeded the 64k Dex method limit. – IgorGanapolsky Jul 12 '16 at 14:24

score 3 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 11 '16 at 19:37

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At my case change buildToolsVersion from "24" to "23.0.2", solve the problem.

answered Sep 11 '16 at 19:37

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score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 05:46

In my case the Exception occurred because all google play service extensions are not with same version as follows

 compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-plus:9.8.0'
 compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-appinvite:9.8.0'
 compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:8.3.0'

It worked when I changed this to

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-plus:9.8.0'
 compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-appinvite:9.8.0'
 compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:9.8.0'

I didn't browse to all the answers and I didn't see yours, so ... I discovered that *this* was my case about an hour later :/ — denispyr, Mar 27 '17 at 17:09

score 2 · Answer 10 · edited May 17 '17 at 05:10

I resolved it with the next:

I configured multidex

In build.gradle you need to add the next one.

android {
...
   defaultConfig {
       ...
       // Enabling multidex support.
       multiDexEnabled true
       ...
   }
   dexOptions {
      incremental true
      maxProcessCount 4 // this is the default value
      javaMaxHeapSize "2g"
   }
...
}
dependencies {
...
   compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1'
...
}

Add the next one in local.properties

org.gradle.parallel=true
org.gradle.configureondemand=true
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

After that into Application class you need to add the Multidex too.

 public class MyApplication extends MultiDexApplication {

   @Override
   public void onCreate() {
       super.onCreate();
       //mas codigo
   }

   @Override
   protected void attachBaseContext(Context base) {
       super.attachBaseContext(base);
       MultiDex.install(this);
   }
}

Don't forget add the line code into Manifest.xml

<application
    ...
    android:name=".MyApplication"
    ...
/>

That's it with this was enough for resolve the bug: Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug. Check very well into build.gradle with javaMaxHeapSize "2g" and the local.properties org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m are of 2 gigabyte.

Please post in English only. This looks like a good answer, it'd be a shame for it to be deleted because it's not in English. — Tunaki, Feb 28 '17 at 22:30

score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Mar 04 '16 at 19:15

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I had same problem when i rolled back to old version via git, and that version had previous .jar library of one 3rd party api, and for some reason turned out that both jar of the same sdk, just different versions were in /libs folder.

answered Mar 04 '16 at 19:15

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score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Sep 24 '16 at 11:48

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First Delete intermediates files YOUR APP FOLDER\app\build\intermediates OR Clean your project and then rebuild.

Thent add

multiDexEnabled true

i.e.

defaultConfig {
        multiDexEnabled true
}

It's work for me

answered Sep 24 '16 at 11:48

Mohd. Jafar Iqbal khan

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score 1 · Answer 13 · edited Jan 17 '18 at 07:04

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I solved this issue by change to use latest buildToolsVersion

android {
    //...
    buildToolsVersion '26.0.2' // change from '23.0.2'
    //...
}

edited Jan 17 '18 at 07:04

wscourge

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answered Jan 17 '18 at 06:45

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score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Feb 12 '20 at 13:44

A helpful answer if all above didn't work for you.

Go to your app gradle file,

Check all the dependency versions are mentioned with proper version code rather than any relative value like (com.example.demo:+)

Previous - implementation 'com.google.api-client:google-api-client-android:+'

After - implementation 'com.google.api-client:google-api-client-android:1.30.0'

score 0 · Answer 15 · answered Nov 23 '15 at 07:25

If you are using the latest gradle version ie classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.5.0' and classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:1.4.0-beta3', then try updating the latest support respository from the SDK manager and rebuild the entire project.

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered May 23 '16 at 13:05

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If you need add this reference for cordova plugin add next line in your plugin.xml file.

<framework src="com.android.support:support-v4:+" />

answered May 23 '16 at 13:05

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Jun 21 '16 at 08:46

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If the different dependencies have a same jar also cause this build error.

For example:

compile('com.a.b:library1');
compile('com.c.d:library2');

If "library1" and "library2" has a same jar named xxx.jar, this will make such an error.

answered Jun 21 '16 at 08:46

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score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Jul 15 '16 at 16:29

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It happened to me because of Eclipse memory leak. I had to restart my computer.

answered Jul 15 '16 at 16:29

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score 0 · Answer 19 · answered Aug 21 '16 at 03:42

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I changed a couple of pngs and the build number in the gradle and now I get this. No amount of cleaning and restarting helped. Disabling Instant Run fixed it for me. YMMV

answered Aug 21 '16 at 03:42

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score 0 · Answer 20 · answered Sep 13 '16 at 12:12

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I had the same option and as soon as I turned off Instant run, it worked fine on my API16 device, but on the API24 device it worked fine with Instant run.

Hope this helps someone having the same issue

answered Sep 13 '16 at 12:12

Stillie

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score 0 · Answer 21 · answered Dec 14 '16 at 22:23

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Simply go to Build - Edit Build Types - Properties Tab - Build Type Version and downgrade it to ver 23.0.1. Click ok. This works for android studio 1.5. It worked for me.

answered Dec 14 '16 at 22:23

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score 0 · Answer 22 · answered Dec 19 '16 at 13:31

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the write answer is in gradle put defaultConfig { multiDexEnabled true } then application name in manifest android:name="android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication" wish this answer is hellpful to some one

answered Dec 19 '16 at 13:31

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score 0 · Answer 23 · answered May 13 '17 at 14:31

this code solved problem

defaultConfig {
        multiDexEnabled true
}

For easiest way to implement google sign in visit: google sign in android

Also try

dexOptions {
        javaMaxHeapSize "4g" 
    }

Also keep same version number for different services.

score 0 · Answer 24 · answered Sep 13 '17 at 13:15

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I solved this issue by adding: In build.gradle:

defaultConfig {
    multiDexEnabled true
}

in local.properties ,

org.gradle.jvmargs=-XX\:MaxHeapSize\=512m -Xmx512m

mention dependency:

compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1'

Clean and Rebuild.

answered Sep 13 '17 at 13:15

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score 0 · Answer 25 · answered Aug 13 '19 at 13:07

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Incase 'Instant Run' is enable, then just disable it.

answered Aug 13 '19 at 13:07

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I resolved it with the next:

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