Android Studio Google JAR file causing GC overhead limit exceeded error

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I am using Android Studio on OS nbsp X  I am getting this error message      FAILURE  Build failed with an exception          What went wrong    Execution failed for task   app preDexDebug     com android ide common internal LoggedErrorException  Failed to run command       Applications Android Studio app sdk build-tools android-4 4W dx --dex --output  Users alex AndroidStudioProjects SilentSMS app build intermediates pre-dexed debug android-4 3 r2 1-f22bbff4d1017230e169a4844a9c2195f13060d2 jar  Users alex AndroidStudioProjects SilentSMS app libs android-4 3 r2 1 jar      Error Code    3   Output         UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL ERROR    java lang OutOfMemoryError  GC overhead limit exceeded       at com android dx cf code RopperMachine getSources RopperMachine java 665        at com android dx cf code RopperMachine run RopperMachine java 288        at com android dx cf code Simulator SimVisitor visitLocal Simulator java 612        at com android dx cf code BytecodeArray parseInstruction BytecodeArray java 412        at com android dx cf code Simulator simulate Simulator java 94        at com android dx cf code Ropper processBlock Ropper java 782        at com android dx cf code Ropper doit Ropper java 737        at com android dx cf code Ropper convert Ropper java 346        at com android dx dex cf CfTranslator processMethods CfTranslator java 282        at com android dx dex cf CfTranslator translate0 CfTranslator java 139        at com android dx dex cf CfTranslator translate CfTranslator java 94        at com android dx command dexer Main processClass Main java 682        at com android dx command dexer Main processFileBytes Main java 634        at com android dx command dexer Main access 600 Main java 78        at com android dx command dexer Main 1 processFileBytes Main java 572        at com android dx cf direct ClassPathOpener processArchive ClassPathOpener java 284        at com android dx cf direct ClassPathOpener processOne ClassPathOpener java 166        at com android dx cf direct ClassPathOpener process ClassPathOpener java 144        at com android dx command dexer Main processOne Main java 596        at com android dx command dexer Main processAllFiles Main java 498        at com android dx command dexer Main runMonoDex Main java 264        at com android dx command dexer Main run Main java 230        at com android dx command dexer Main main Main java 199        at com android dx command Main main Main java 103    I am using this library   http   grepcode com snapshot repository grepcode com java ext com google android android 4 3 r2 1   I pulled the JAR file and added it to my project - the project I am trying to build is   https   github com domi007 silentSMS   I understand it is because my xms and xmx values are too low  I increased them in    Applications Android Studio app bin idea vmoptions so that it now says   -Xms256m -Xmx1024m   However  I still get the error  What could this be caused by  Apart from the silentSMS app being an Eclipse project and me porting the code over to Android Studio I haven t changed anything  In terms of Android Studio spotting errors - it doesn t  and everything else looks fine

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I tried all the solutions mentioned above, but I was still facing the issue. Finally I stumbled upon the following which resolved the issue.

(On MacOS) Went to Preferences -> Memory Settings -> Find existing grade demon(s) -> Stopped all of them.

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in my case  I Edit my  gradle properties    note  if u enable the  minifyEnabled true    remove this line    android enableR8 true   and add this lines in ur build gradle   android block      dexOptions           incremental   true         preDexLibraries   false         javaMaxHeapSize  4g     2g should be also OK         hope this help some one

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This new issue is caused by the latest version of Android   Go to your project root folder  open gradle properties  and add the following options   org gradle daemon true  org gradle jvmargs -Xmx2048m -XX MaxPermSize 512m -XX  HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile encoding UTF-8  org gradle parallel true  org gradle configureondemand true   Then add these changes in your build gradle file   dexOptions           incremental   true         preDexLibraries   false         javaMaxHeapSize  4g     2g should be also OK

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I forced closed all Java exe from taskmanger  restarted Android Studio and it worked for me

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Android Studio 3 5 3  Find the Memory Settings  Cmd   Shift   A on Mac or click on Help and start typing  Memory Settings   under Preferences  Settings and increase the IDE Heap Size and  or the Daemon Heap Size to your satisfaction

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4g is a bit overkill  if you do not want to change buildGradle you can use FILE -  Invalid caches   restart   Thats work fine for me

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I disable my Instant Run by   Menu Preference   Build   Instant Run  Enable Instant Run to hot swap code   I guess it is the Instant Run that makes the build slow and creates a large size pidXXX hprof file which causes the AndroidStudio gc overhead limit exceeded    My device SDK is 19

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For me non of the answers worked I saw here worked  I guessed that having the CPU work extremely hard makes the computer hot  After I closed programs that consume large amounts of CPU  like chrome  and cooling down my laptop the problem disappeared   For reference  I had the CPU on 96 -97  and Memory usage over 2 000 000K by a java exe process  which was actually gradle related process

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I m using Android Studio 3 4 and the only thing that worked for me was to remove the following lines from my build gradle file   minifyEnabled true proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile  proguard-android txt     proguard-rules pro    Because Android Studio 3 4 is using R8 in full mode and is not direct compatible with Proguard

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Add this to build gradle file  dexOptions      javaMaxHeapSize  2g

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In my case  to increase the heap-size looks like this   Using Android Studio 1 1 0  android       dexOptions           incremental true         javaMaxHeapSize  2048M            Put the above code in your Build gradle file

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At some point a duplicate copy of apply plugin   com android application  got added to my build gradle  Removing the duplicate copy and making sure all my apply plugins were at the  top fixed the issue for me

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I think there s a separate way to raise the heap limit of the dexing operation  Add this to your android closure in your build gradle file   dexOptions       javaMaxHeapSize  4g      and see if that helps    idea courtesy of this answer from Scott Barta

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