Build failure: signature-polymorphic method called without --min-sdk-version >= 26

[nathanwharvey]

I am getting a strange bug when building, even with a fresh project. The error only occurs when groovy is being compiled. Here is the module's build.gradle:

buildscript {
	repositories {
		jcenter()
	}
	
	dependencies {
		classpath 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-android-gradle-plugin:1.1.0'
	}
}

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'groovyx.android'

androidGroovy {
	options {
		configure(groovyOptions) {
			javaAnnotationProcessing = true
		}
	}
}

android {
	compileSdkVersion 25
	buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"
	defaultConfig {
		applicationId "io.nwh.myapplication"
		minSdkVersion 15
		targetSdkVersion 25
		versionCode 1
		versionName "1.0"
		testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
	}
	buildTypes {
		release {
			minifyEnabled false
			proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
		}
	}
}

dependencies {
	compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
	androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
		exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
	})
	compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1'
	testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
	compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
	compile 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy:2.4.7:grooid'
}

And here is the project's build.gralde:

buildscript {
	repositories {
		jcenter()
	}
	dependencies {
		classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.4.0-alpha5'
	}
}

allprojects {
	repositories {
		jcenter()
	}
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
	delete rootProject.buildDir
}

I am using Gradle version 3.4.1. Here is the output from building:

$ gradle installDebug
:app:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:resolveDebugDependencies
:app:preDebugBuild
:app:checkDebugManifest
:app:prepareDebugDependencies
:app:compileDebugAidl
:app:compileDebugRenderscript
:app:generateDebugBuildConfig
:app:generateDebugResValues
:app:handleDebugMicroApk
:app:generateDebugResources
:app:mergeDebugResources
:app:processDebugManifest
:app:processDebugResources
:app:generateDebugSources
:app:incrementalDebugJavaCompilationSafeguard
:app:javaPreCompileDebug
:app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac
:app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac - is not incremental (e.g. outputs have changed, no previous execution, etc.).
:app:compileDebugGroovyWithGroovyc
warning: [options] bootstrap class path not set in conjunction with -source 1.7
1 warning
:app:compileDebugNdk NO-SOURCE
:app:compileDebugSources
:app:mergeDebugShaders
:app:compileDebugShaders
:app:generateDebugAssets
:app:mergeDebugAssets
:app:transformClassesWithDexBuilderForDebug
warning: Ignoring InnerClasses attribute for an anonymous inner class
                                                                      (groovyjarjarantlr.build.ANTLR$1) that doesn't come with an
associated EnclosingMethod attribute. This class was probably produced by a
compiler that did not target the modern .class file format. The recommended
solution is to recompile the class from source, using an up-to-date compiler
and without specifying any "-target" type options. The consequence of ignoring
this warning is that reflective operations on this class will incorrectly
indicate that it is *not* an inner class.
Unable to pre-dex 'C:\Users\Nathan\.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\org.codehaus.groovy\groovy\2.4.7\b4b263e2106bac49c2eb21f6737f9b6e45e24a4a\groovy-2.4.7-grooid.jar' to 'C:\Users\Nathan\Documents\Flags2\app\build\intermediates\transforms\dexBuilder\debug\jars\40000\10\groovy-2.4.7-grooid_5a2004fbc80cc406e9adac10d01fb1c4aeb1d6e6.jar'
Dex: Error converting bytecode to dex:WithDexBuilderForDebug
Cause: signature-polymorphic method called without --min-sdk-version >= 26
    UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION:
signature-polymorphic method called without --min-sdk-version >= 26

java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.dx.cf.code.SimException: signature-polymorphic method called without --min-sdk-version >= 26
        at com.android.ide.common.internal.WaitableExecutor.waitForTasksWithQuickFail(WaitableExecutor.java:183)
        at com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveBuilder.processOutputs(DexArchiveBuilder.java:95)
        at com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveBuilder.convert(DexArchiveBuilder.java:78)
        at com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.DexArchiveBuilderTransformCallable.lambda$cacheMissAction$0(DexArchiveBuilderTransformCallable.java:240)
        at com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.DexArchiveBuilderTransformCallable$$Lambda$1022/1324664455.run(Unknown Source)
        at com.android.builder.utils.FileCache.lambda$createFile$1(FileCache.java:260)
        at com.android.builder.utils.FileCache$$Lambda$1033/1397556199.call(Unknown Source)
        at com.android.builder.utils.FileCache.lambda$null$5(FileCache.java:443)
        at com.android.builder.utils.FileCache$$Lambda$1089/840087435.accept(Unknown Source)
        at com.android.builder.utils.SynchronizedFile.doActionWithMultiProcessLocking(SynchronizedFile.java:265)
        at com.android.builder.utils.SynchronizedFile.write(SynchronizedFile.java:232)
        at com.android.builder.utils.FileCache.lambda$queryCacheEntry$6(FileCache.java:415)
        at com.android.builder.utils.FileCache$$Lambda$1037/1858463036.accept(Unknown Source)
        at com.android.builder.utils.SynchronizedFile.doActionWithMultiProcessLocking(SynchronizedFile.java:265)
        at com.android.builder.utils.SynchronizedFile.read(SynchronizedFile.java:215)
        at com.android.builder.utils.FileCache.queryCacheEntry(FileCache.java:391)
        at com.android.builder.utils.FileCache.createFile(FileCache.java:273)
        at com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.DexArchiveBuilderTransformCallable.getFromCacheAndCreateIfMissing(DexArchiveBuilderTransformCallable.java:187)
        at com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.DexArchiveBuilderTransformCallable.call(DexArchiveBuilderTransformCallable.java:149)
        at com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.DexArchiveBuilderTransformCallable.call(DexArchiveBuilderTransformCallable.java:53)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: com.android.dx.cf.code.SimException: signature-polymorphic method called without --min-sdk-version >= 26
        at com.android.dx.cf.code.Simulator$SimVisitor.visitConstant(Simulator.java:684)
        at com.android.dx.cf.code.BytecodeArray.parseInstruction(BytecodeArray.java:764)
        at com.android.dx.cf.code.Simulator.simulate(Simulator.java:101)
        at com.android.dx.cf.code.Ropper.processBlock(Ropper.java:790)
        at com.android.dx.cf.code.Ropper.doit(Ropper.java:745)
        at com.android.dx.cf.code.Ropper.convert(Ropper.java:350)
        at com.android.dx.dex.cf.CfTranslator.processMethods(CfTranslator.java:285)
        at com.android.dx.dex.cf.CfTranslator.translate0(CfTranslator.java:141)
        at com.android.dx.dex.cf.CfTranslator.translate(CfTranslator.java:95)
        at com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveBuilderCallable.translateClass(DexArchiveBuilderCallable.java:87)
        at com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveBuilderCallable.call(DexArchiveBuilderCallable.java:70)
        at com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveBuilderCallable.call(DexArchiveBuilderCallable.java:40)
        ... 6 more
:app:transformClassesWithDexBuilderForDebug FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithDexBuilderForDebug'.
> com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.builder.utils.FileCache$FileCreatorException: com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveBuilder$DexBuilderException: Unable to convert input to dex archive.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 7.949 secs

I also tried copying the sample app and got the same error.

[AndrewReitz]

This appears to be a change to an internal class in gradle that this plugin depends on. The change is in 3.5 and 3.4.1 still continues to work as a current work around. I will be updating tests and the source to NO longer depend on the internal gradle classes as this is the second time its caused the plugin to break.

[AndrewReitz]

Turns out the breaking change was from Gradle 3.2 to 3.3 where an interface had a method added to it.

I updated the tests to include 3.5 and before fixing this change they were still passing. So it looks like there is still something else going on in your issues.

Once #146 gets merged in you can try out the 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT and see if it resolves your issue.

[nathanwharvey]

Great, thanks for the quick reply. I am indeed using Gradle 3.4.1 so it's a strange issue. I'll wait for the merge

[nathanwharvey]

@AndrewReitz I see you merged the change, but I don't see a 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT on bintray. I'm still getting errors. I tried switching around my Gradle versions but to no avail. Are the following versions correct?

com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.4.0-alpha5
org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-android-gradle-plugin:1.1.0
buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"
compileSdkVersion 25

[AndrewReitz]

I haven't tested anything using any of the alpha builds since I'm only one person and google seems to change stuff so much. An easy way to test newer version is to just add another row to the data table in the full test spec and run ./gradlew fullTest

For the snapshots you need to use the jcenter's snapshot repo instead of the regular jcenter repo. Directions to add this are on in the README.

[yangxinQA]

how did it solved?

[nathanwharvey]

@yangxinQA Hey, sorry for the late reply, I am just getting back at my app. I solved it for one of my classes by removing @CompileStatic. I also downgraded my build tools. Here are my versions:

com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.2
org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-android-gradle-plugin:1.1.0
buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"
compileSdkVersion 25

If that doesn't work for you, I'm afraid I can't help :(. Maybe @AndrewReitz has some more ideas.

[AndrewReitz]

@nathanwharvey are you still seeing this issue?

[miffels]

I have just run into this when trying to use android-spock:2.0.0 with the Android Studio 3.0 preview and com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-alpha3 that you need to compile Java8. I guess this might be related? I was basically just grabbing the preview from here, configured an API level 25 project as described here, and tried to get the basic sample to run.

[nite2]

I was experiencing the same issue and i can confirm that using org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-android-gradle-plugin:1.3.0-SNAPSHOT resolves it

[AndrewReitz]

@nite2 The only difference between 1.2.0 and 1.3.0-SNAPSHOT is the version number so I don't think that's what solved the issue. Maybe an update to the gradle android plugin fixed the issue?

[nite2]

@AndrewReitz I am not saying that this issue wasn't resolved in 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT as you have suggested in previous comment, what i was communicating is that i was having the issue when using version 1.2.0 (not 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT), then upgraded to 1.3.0-SNAPSHOT and the problem was gone. Was the fix #146 included in the "main" 1.2.0 release?

[AndrewReitz]

Yeah, #146 was included. As of right now, the only difference between 1.2.0 and 1.3.0-SNAPSHOT is the version number https://github.com/groovy/groovy-android-gradle-plugin/commits/master.