String too large to encode using UTF-8 written instead as 'STRING_TOO_LARGE'

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Java compiler error: string too large to encode using UTF-8 written instead as 'STRING_TOO_LARGE'.

I want to note, that there I have no long string and no one vector drawable that bigger than 32kb (biggest is 3.7kb).

Gradle 3.2.0, build tool 28.0.3

What can take a problem?

Without seeing any of your code it's hard to do anything other than taking a guess at what might be potentially a possible problem. Currently all that we can see is that there is in all likelihood a String that is too large to be encoded, else you would not get the error message. How that String is built and why it exists... that's a question that we can not really answer. You might want to elaborate your question a bit further so we can see a bit further down the rabbit hole and help finding a solution :) — Ben, Oct 01 '18 at 10:36
There is a similar question on Russian SO. Proposed solution is to use **--debug** and **--stacktrace** build options to identify exact string — Maxim, Oct 01 '18 at 10:38
@AbhinavGupta as I said in question I have now such a resource — Tigran Babajanyan, Oct 01 '18 at 10:40
copy paste your longest string to find if converted UTF-8 length is greater than 32767 also, convert it using UTF-16 to find out if length is greater than 2147483647. You can use https://www.browserling.com/tools/utf8-encode and https://www.browserling.com/tools/utf16-encode — Rahul, Oct 01 '18 at 10:47
@TigranBabajanyan [here the thread](https://ru.stackoverflow.com/questions/847239/string-too-large-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%B2-android-studio) mentioned. As I understood the problem was in two different versions of a third-party library — Maxim, Oct 01 '18 at 11:12
@Maxim after adding --debug and --stacktrace my error not appearing, don't know why — Tigran Babajanyan, Oct 01 '18 at 11:44
I had encountered the same and fixed by clear the build cache. For more info: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-cache#clear_the_build_cache — Kalu Khan Luhar, Oct 31 '18 at 10:48
If someone are lazy and doesn't have to look for @Kalu Khan Luhar link for clean build cache just use in terminal: `./gradlew cleanBuildCache` — wrozwad, Nov 27 '18 at 10:07
@sosite if that helped you, its good, but problem there is case when that doesn't help — Tigran Babajanyan, Nov 27 '18 at 11:12

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 01 '20 at 11:13

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Run this in your terminal

./gradlew cleanBuildCache

(in my case I need to do this several times until it helps)

answered Oct 01 '20 at 11:13

Cube

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '20 at 05:55

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Check your vector drawables there may be a big path. I came across same issue and i solved it by deleting big vector drawable it.

answered Jul 28 '20 at 05:55

Mirza Ahmed Baig

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score -3 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 29 '19 at 07:40

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Use gradle 3.2 version like 3.2.1 below.

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.2.1'

answered Jan 29 '19 at 07:40

Karl Long

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String too large to encode using UTF-8 written instead as 'STRING_TOO_LARGE'

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