Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 in my app

Question

I\'m trying to compile my Android project and I\'m getting this error

[INFO] Exception in thread \"main\" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android         


        

Answer 1

What no one here is saying is that with Build Tools 24.0.0, Java 8 is required and most people have either 1.6 or 1.7.

So yeah, setting the build tool to 23.x.x would 'solve' the problem but the root cause is the Java version on your system.

On the long term, you might want to upgrade your dev environment to use JDK8 to make use the new language enhancements and the jack compiler.