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.