build failing on play-services:11.8.x with pro guard parser error

Question

So it looks like there is a bug in the latest play-services to be deployed. Does anyone know how to work around this issue?

FAILURE: Build failed with an exc         


        

Answer 1

In addition to the above solution (which works): the issue seems related to Instant Run as well. If you disable Instant Run, you can build your app without changing your build.gradle. Probably, the default shrinker has changed only when building for Instant Run.