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

You can always revert to DX for now via this setting in your project's gradle.properties file:

android.enableD8=false

For more info, see https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/android-studio-switching-to-d8-dexer.html