To run dex in process, the Gradle daemon needs a larger heap. It currently has approximately 910 MB

Android Problem Overview

I am getting this Gradle error every time I run my app. The error is:

> To run dex in process, the Gradle daemon needs a larger heap. It currently has approximately 910 MB.

>For faster builds, increase the maximum heap size for the Gradle daemon to more than 2048 MB.

>To do this set org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048M in the project gradle.properties. For more information see https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html

Here is my build.gradle (Module:app) file:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

    android {
        compileSdkVersion 23
        buildToolsVersion "23.0.3"
    
        defaultConfig {
            applicationId "mobileapp.tech2dsk"
            minSdkVersion 15
            targetSdkVersion 23
            versionCode 1
            versionName "1.0"
        }
        buildTypes {
            release {
                minifyEnabled false
                proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
            }
        }
    }
    
    dependencies {
        compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
        testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
        compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.3.0'
        compile 'com.android.support:design:23.3.0'
    }

And here is my build.gradle(Project) file:

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.0'

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
}

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

and here is my gradle.properties file :

# Project-wide Gradle settings.

# IDE (e.g. Android Studio) users:
# Gradle settings configured through the IDE *will override*
# any settings specified in this file.

# For more details on how to configure your build environment visit
# http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/build_environment.html

# Specifies the JVM arguments used for the daemon process.
# The setting is particularly useful for tweaking memory settings.
# Default value: -Xmx10248m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
# org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

# When configured, Gradle will run in incubating parallel mode.
# This option should only be used with decoupled projects. More details, visit
# http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/multi_project_builds.html#sec:decoupled_projects
# org.gradle.parallel=true

Android Solutions

Solution 1 - Android

Update from June 25, 2017

At Google IO 2017 there was some updates about this topic. It's not recommended anymore to set the flag on the dexOptions, so if you have something like the next, you can delete it.

dexOptions {
   javaMaxHeapSize "2g"
}

Source: Speeding Up Your Android Gradle Builds

Original answer:

Android Studio 2.1 enables Dex In Process which shares the VM with Gradle to improve build times. Due to this, it's necessary to increase the size of the Gradle daemon to incorporate those Dex processes.

At least it's necessary 2 gigs of memory, but you can try with three if you can afford it.

gradle.properties.

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx3072m

By default the Java max heap size is one gig, but in case you have modified it on the build.gradle file...

build.gradle (App)

dexOptions {
   javaMaxHeapSize "2g"
}

...you have to resize the Gradle daemon size accordingly (has to be bigger to fit the heap).

Resources

Notes:

Please realize above numbers varies from machine to machine.

Solution 2 - Android

Add in your Build.gradle

android {
 dexOptions {
    javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
  }
}

More info - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33750404/android-gradle-what-is-javamaxheapsize-4g

Solution 3 - Android

Simply leave that on your gradle.properties:

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m

You can look at that article as reference.

Solution 4 - Android

I know it's too late for the answer but hope it will helpful to someone

I have tried lot of thing and search lot but nothing works for me include following and build.gradle (App) also dosen't work in my case

android {
  dexOptions {
    javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
  }
}

Also You Can Try Add on your gradle.properties:

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m

In my case the problem is cpu utilization there is lot of process running while i build apk i just kill some processes like genymotion,skype,safari etc and than invalidate caches/restart it works for me.

Solution 5 - Android

Modify or create a file named gradle.properties in the following directory.

For Mac, /Users/USER_NAME/.gradle/gradle.properties

For Linux, /home/USER_NAME/.gradle/gradle.properties

For Windows, C:\Users\USER_NAME.gradle\gradle.properties

and apply the above changes. Finally it should look like,

org.gradle.daemon=true

# When configured, Gradle will run in incubating parallel mode.
# This option should only be used with decoupled projects. More details, visit
# http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/multi_project_builds.html#sec:decoupled_projects
org.gradle.parallel=true

org.gradle.configureondemand=true

# Specifies the JVM arguments used for the daemon process.
# The setting is particularly useful for tweaking memory settings.
# Default value: -Xmx10248m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

Please refer this link https://tausiq.wordpress.com/2015/02/24/android-speed-up-gradle-build-process-in-android-studio/

Solution 6 - Android

You can go ahead and change build.gradle like that (like Veeresh Charantimath suggested):

android {
 dexOptions {
    javaMaxHeapSize "2g"
 }
}

And then you might have to mess around with MultiDex stuff (you will need it for big android projects). But your problem may be simpler. There is some chance that you compile and include in your project some not needed libraries. I faced this issue on my tiny project. Here is what I did to fix it:

I removed this from build.gradle:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
}

And I manually removed my build folder from application root. Problem solved.

Solution 7 - Android

Is it an error or a warning?

Sometimes this is only a warning and I can manage to build it successfully:

:transformClassesWithDexForDebug
To run dex in process, the Gradle daemon needs a larger heap.
It currently has approximately 910 MB.
For faster builds, increase the maximum heap size for the Gradle daemon to more than 2048 MB.
To do this set org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048M in the project gradle.properties.
For more information see https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html
:mergeDebugJniLibFolders UP-TO-DATE
:transformNative_libsWithMergeJniLibsForDebug
:processDebugJavaRes UP-TO-DATE
:transformResourcesWithMergeJavaResForDebug
:validateDebugSigning
:packageDebug
:zipalignDebug
:assembleDebug
:cdvBuildDebug

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 3 mins 44.991 secs
Built the following apk(s):
(...)

So the problem that may prevent a successful build may be another one...

Solution 8 - Android

In WINDOW'S open the gradle.properties from ~\Users\UserName\.gradle as shown below: for more info enter link description here

and make sure to set its value to minimum to 4608M as shown below for faster builds org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4608M

Once you do that then you can see the day and night difference in speed building your app...

Solution 9 - Android

I'm pretty sure javaMaxHeapSize and org.gradle.jvmargs are mutually exclusive.

javaMaxHeapSize is the old way of doing it, with dex run outside of the process. This will be an argument to the dex process.
org.gradle.jvmargs is the new way of doing it, with dex inside the gradle process. This is the max memory for the whole process (gradle, including dex)

What the warning says is that org.gradle.jvmargs should be >= javaMaxHeapSize (what you used previously for dex) + 512M (an estimation of what's needed for gradle own needs).

So if you want to use dex in process (which is faster), you shouldn't care about javaMaxHeapSize. Just set org.gradle.jvmargs to a correct value for your project/machine.

Solution 10 - Android

There appears to be a bug:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=208214

Using com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.1.2 I set org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx3415M with dexOptions.javaMaxHeapSize "2g" and the error message went away.

Solution 11 - Android

Please check at first gradle.propertises at your project root directory.

If it is absence, please create a file as like this , then add org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1536m

otherwise if already there , please increase the size.

I have faced same problem , where i have solved by this way.

Solution 12 - Android

Example, in gradle.properties of your project root.

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

Solution 13 - Android

Try this

defaultConfig {
    ...

    // Enabling multidex support.
    multiDexEnabled true
}

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