Upgrade from gradle 8.0.2 to 8.1.0 breaks GitHub builds

Question

After upgrading to Android Studio Giraffe I switched from gradle 8.0.2 to 8.1.0 as recommended. It seems to be working fine when building from Android Studio on Windows 11 but it broke my GitHub builds.

Here is the error apparently:

ERROR: /home/runner/work/Fulguris/Fulguris/app/build/intermediates/merged_java_res/slionsFullDownloadRelease/base.jar: R8: com.android.tools.r8.ResourceException: com.android.tools.r8.internal.Tb: I/O exception while reading '/home/runner/work/Fulguris/Fulguris/app/build/intermediates/merged_java_res/slionsFullDownloadRelease/base.jar': /home/runner/work/Fulguris/Fulguris/app/build/intermediates/merged_java_res/slionsFullDownloadRelease/base.jar

Not exactly obvious what that is…

Answer 1

See https://issuetracker.google.com/277166577#comment6 for the resolution of this issue.

To fix it just replace whenTaskAdded by configureEach in your gradle file.