Android Studio 3.0 Execution failed for task: unable to merge dex

Question

android studio was getting build error while build execution with following:

Error:Execution failed for task \':app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLi

Answer 1

I Have Done and fixed this issue by just doing this jobs in my code

Open ->build.gradle Change value from

compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.6.1'

to

compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'