Why are my Gradle builds dying with exit-code 137?

Question

I\'ve been trying to compile and test a large project to use Gradle. The test run fine until they die unexpectedly. I dug around and resources said that this is due to a mem

Answer 1

If you are having trouble with this on CircleCi, where you are trying to run Robolectric Test

I found the solution to my problems on their documentation page for android

https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/language-android/

which was simply to add

android {
    testOptions {
        unitTests {
            returnDefaultValues = true
            includeAndroidResources = true

            all {
                maxHeapSize = "1024m"
            }
        }
    }

If you are still running into OOM issues you can also limit the max workers for gradle: ./gradlew test --max-workers 4