How set Gradle JVM settings in Android Studio 1.3

Question

Starting with version 1.3, Android Studio will no longer support IDE-specific Gradle JVM argument settings. Gradle JVM settings need to be set in gradle.properties files. This c

Answer 1

Add this to your android clause in build.gradle:

compileOptions {
    sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
    targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
}

Answer 2

Try changing your jvmargs to the following

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

Or something smaller -Xmx512m as your system does not have enough memory to create the object heap and thus the jvm.

You can also add the following option too:

 org.gradle.daemon=true

For those on macosx I like to add the following

-Djava.awt.headless=true