Gradle Error : com.android.build.transform.api.TransformException

Question

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithDependencyCheckerForDebug'.

org.gradle.api.internal.changedetection.rules.DescriptiveChange cannot be cast to org.gradle.api.tasks.incremental.InputFileDetails he may be corrupt (this sometimes occurs after a network connection timeout.) Re-download dependencies and sync project (requires network)

The state of a Gradle build process (daemon) may be corrupt. Stopping all Gradle daemons may solve this problem. Stop Gradle build processes (requires restart)

Your project may be using a third-party plugin which is not compatible with the other plugins in the project or the version of Gradle requested by the project.

In the case of corrupt Gradle processes, you can also try closing the IDE and then killing all Java processes.

Information:BUILD FAILED

Information:Total time: 1 mins 21.644 secs Information:1 error

My build.gradle dependencies:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
    androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
    })
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.1.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:25.1.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:25.1.0'
    compile 'org.apache.directory.studio:org.apache.commons.io:2.4'
    compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.1.0'
    compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.1.0'
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.0'
    compile 'com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor:3.3.1'
    compile 'uk.co.chrisjenx:calligraphy:2.2.0'
    compile 'org.greenrobot:eventbus:3.0.0'
    compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
    compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:10.0.1'
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
}

ALREADY TRIED:

This Solution:

dexOptions {
    javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
    preDexLibraries = false
}

This Solution:

multiDexEnabled true

and CLEAN, INVALIDATE and RESTART, all option tried but didn't found any solution.

Is there any help please?

Answer 1

This happened with me just a few hours ago when I opened an old project after few months. Problem with me was that as I have updated Android Studio after that so gradle plugin too need to be updated. But as soon as I changed gradle version it start giving me this error.

To solve this, I did following steps

1. Change your distribution url in gradle-wrapper.properties file.

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.2.1-all.zip

2. Delete caches from your system Users/.gradle folder

3. Rebuild your project.

Answer 2

I'm facing same issue there.

I deleted the .gradle folder under C:\Users(user-name).gradle

rerun

cordova build android

and it worked.

I dont know it can happened, but I think some files or configuration has corrupted on gradle.