April 23, 2019

 

Upgrading Android project to Studio 3.4

Upgrade involves:
  1. dependency versions chain upgrade: studio -> gradle plugin -> kotlin version
  2. solving mysterious problems with desugaring D8 (add "android.enableD8.desugaring=false" to gradle.properties)

I'm not very happy when I'm unexpectedly forced to spend 3h+ on infinite chain of tasks. This repeats itself for most of the Android Studio upgrades.

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Follow-up: desugring can be safely disabled after clearing caches and restarting IDE.
 
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