I am getting many of these Error:Uncaught translation error:. If it helps I am building an app with over 200 activities

Question

:app:incrementalDebugTasks :app:prePackageMarkerForDebug :app:fastDeployDebugExtractor :app:generateDebugInstantRunAppInfo :app:coldswapKickerDebug :app:transformClassesWithInstantRunSlicerForDebug :app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug To run dex in process, the Gradle daemon needs a larger heap. It currently has approximately 910 MB. For faster builds, increase the maximum heap size for the Gradle daemon to more than 2048 MB. To do this set org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048M in the project gradle.properties. For more information see https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html

Error:Uncaught translation error: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Error:Uncaught translation error: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Error:Uncaught translation error: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Error:Uncaught translation error: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Error:Uncaught translation error: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Error:Uncaught translation error: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Error:Uncaught translation error: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Error:Uncaught translation error: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Error:Uncaught translation error: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded Error:Error converting bytecode to dex: Cause: java.lang.RuntimeException: Translation has been interrupted :app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug FAILED Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug'.

com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_91\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2 Information:BUILD FAILED Information:Total time: 13 mins 23.156 secs Information:11 errors Information:0 warnings Information:See complete output in console

Answer 1

it can be solved by raise the heap limit of the dexing operation. Add this to your android closure in your build.gradle file:

dexOptions {
    javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
}

otherwise

android {
        dexOptions {
            incremental true
            javaMaxHeapSize "2048M"
        }
    }

taken from here