'Failed to transform" error after migrating to AndroidX

Question

I\'m using Android Studio 3.2 Canary 14 and am trying to migrate an existing project to use AndroidX. It sounds from https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/s

Answer 1

I had this same error after adding JDK 11 to my machine. It set itself as default JDK and this error started happening.

After setting JDK 8 as default, it was fixed.