GC overhead limit exceeded when enable R8 Shrinker in Android Studio 3.4

Question

I\'m using Android Studio 3.4 (Canary 9), when I build my app, it failed with the following error

Task :app:transformClassesAndResourcesWithR8ForDebug

Answer 1

As you said you are not using any custom JVM args, try it out.

In your gradle.properties file try several values for memory settings. For example try to set

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4096m

As suggested by the commented section:

Specifies the JVM arguments used for the daemon process.

The setting is particularly useful for tweaking memory settings.

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1536m

I've used R8 in my project and all worked fine.