transformClassesWithDesugar build error after updating to AS 3.0 Canary 6

Question

I updated to Android Studio 3.0 Canary 6 and am now getting following error (had been on Canary 5). I\'ve searched for people seeing similar issues but no luck so far. Any

Answer 1

So, turns out this issue was due to mismatch between play services/support library versions my app was depending on directly and transitive dependences from FirebaseUI - https://github.com/firebase/FirebaseUI-Android#upgrading-dependencies