RenderScript broken on macOS Catalina (10.15)

Question

I\'ve updated to MacOS Catalina. This morning while I was working on my Android project, it suddenly started giving the following exception: \"ERROR: Cause: error=86, Bad CP

Answer 1

I am using Android studio 4.0, and this issue got fixed for me by just updating the gradle version.

In build.gradle of app:

-    ext.gradle_version = '3.5.3'
+    ext.gradle_version = '4.0.0'

And in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties:

-  distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.4-all.zip
+  distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.1.1-all.zip

Answer 2

To anyone having the same issue, this is a bug. When using renderscript, the linker uses the 32 bit file. Multiple bugs have been logged. If you want to keep track, you can follow what is happening over here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/142590626

Holding thumbs that they fix it soon!

UPDATE: They have fixed it in the latest buildtools version 29.0.3. You also need to update to Android Studio 3.6 to use it.

BONUS: For anyone else trying to update to AndroidX AS WELL - Renderscript might break on Android6. There is a workaround (as far as I can tell) where you set renderscriptSupportModeEnabled to false - but it doesnt fix it for ALL devices (eg. Xiomi Redmi go - Android 8.1 - then breaks for me).