android studio with Java compiler error: string too large to encode using UTF-8 written instead as 'STRING_TOO_LARGE'

Question

When I clean the android project in android studio, the error happen, I have backed to previous commit or different branch, which works find couple days ago, but has this er

Answer 1

In my case I declared a string variable in xml using data binding without assigning a value to it. by setting value to variable problem resolved

Answer 2

For the time being, you can downgrade Gradle version to resolve this issue. Use gradle 3.1 version like 3.1.3 below.

  classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.3'

Answer 3

I had encountered the same and fixed by clear the build cache .

Answer 4

I found an SVG file that had a very long pathData. I commented it out and the error went away. That very same vector (when called) at runtime would cause a crash (before it was commented out).