Android Studio 2.2.3. I've been building an APK for android with my current project with success until very recently. As far as I know, nothing was changed except a data file, and my "Build APK" step mysteriously started failing with this message in the gradle console:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':VrSamples:Native:myproject:Projects:Android:packageDebug'.
> Java heap space
and in my "messages" window I see this error:
Error:Execution failed for task ':VrSamples:Native:myproject:Projects:Android:packageDebug'.
> Java heap space
mple, the following line, in the gradle.properties file, sets the maximum Java heap size to 1,024 MB:
<em>org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1024m</em>
<a href="http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/build_environment.html">Read Gradle's configuration guide</a><br><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gc-ergonomics.html">Read about Java's heap size</a>
I've tried many things:
- Reset version control to previous version I know was generating APK's fine
- Re-clone the entire project in a new location to rule out and intermetiate files that might be pulled in with the .gitignore, to guarantee it's a fresh build
- Rebooted my computer
- re-installed android studio
- Run the clean step, rebuilt, manually deleted intermediate files
- Added org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1024m to my gradle.properties file
- increased the 1024m to 4096m
- manually increased the -Xmx value in both Android Studio\bin\studio.exe.vmoptions and the 64-bit equivalent
I'm puzzled as to why I'm suddenly hitting this issue now, and why I can't seem to be able to re-create the APK's I've been building without problems until recently. As far as I'm aware, I also haven't updated any libraries either.
Would appreciate any suggestions to resolve this issue, tips on how to debug this kind of thing down the road, etc.