:app:dexDebug ExecException finished with non-zero exit value 2

Question

Could anyone help me out with the following error. When i clean the project, it doesn\'t show any error but every time i try to run i get this message.

Error:Execut

Answer 1

For me the solution was to remove an unnecessary/duplicate dependency entries. This is a similar solution others offered here that makes sense, but not exactly the same solution as those offered by others.

Since I was already including *.jar files in the list of files to be compiled, there was no need for additional entries in the dependencies list.

Before:

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

    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.0'
    compile 'com.parse.bolts:bolts-android:1.+'
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: 'Parse-*.jar')
}

After:

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

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.0'

}

Answer 2

I had the same error

app:dexDebug ExecException finished with non-zero exit value 2

i solve it by adding this line of code

defaultConfig {
        multiDexEnabled true
}

The reason is that i was using too many libraries

Hope this post will help anyone

Answer 3

After days of trying out finally could fix the issue. The problem with one of my .jar files. I had to remove each jar and check one by one until i found it. I removed the .jar file and cleaned my project and ran successfully. If any one should face similar issue check your jar file one by one.

Answer 4

I had the same problem when I compiled google play services to my dependencies.

My mistake was I was compiling the enitre package like this

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:8.3.0'

Instead when I tried the selective compile, it worked.In my case I was using for google sign in,so it had just had to be

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:8.3.0'.

More details are in the documentaion. https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup#split

Hope this will be of a little help to someone someday :)

Answer 5

I faced the same problem when trying to add the SignalR Java client library to my project's dependencies. I first changed the target JDK of my app from 1.8.0_XX to 1.7.0_XX, but it didn't work. Then I changed the SignalR project to target 1.7.0_XX as well, rebuilt and added it to my project's libs folder instead of the first build (which was in 1.8.0_XX), and that miraculously worked.

Answer 6

For me, the problem was that I was using different versions of "Google Play services sub API's"

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