java.lang.OutOfMemoryError on latest AndroidStudio preview version

[Iliya]

Hey all,

Was checking out the latest preview of AS and the new gradle plugins and started getting a Java OOM error when gradle gets to the "transformNativeLibsWithMergeJniLibsForDebug" stage.

I have seen this before but setting up more memory for java in the gradle.properties file fixed it. Now it seems that this is no longer doing the trick.

gradle.properties

# Specifies the JVM arguments used for the daemon process.

# The setting is particularly useful for tweaking memory settings.

# Default value: -Xmx10248m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx8704m -XX:MaxPermSize=2048m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

# When configured, Gradle will run in incubating parallel mode.

# This option should only be used with decoupled projects. More details, visit

#org.gradle.parallel=true

# When set to true the Gradle daemon is used to run the build. For local developer builds this is our favorite property.

# The developer environment is optimized for speed and feedback so we nearly always run Gradle jobs with the daemon.

org.gradle.daemon=true

# Configuration on demand is an incubation feature of Gradle. When enabler it will make Gradle

# configure everything on demand rather than eagerly.

org.gradle.configureondemand=true

# Android Studio 2.2 Beta 3 introduces a new build cache feature that can speed up build times (including full builds, 

# incremental builds, and instant run) by storing and reusing files/directories that were created in previous builds of 

# the same or different Android project. 

android.enableBuildCache=true

Also tried setting javaMaxHeapSize in the build.gradle file without success:

    dexOptions {

        javaMaxHeapSize "6g"

    }

[Iliya]

Found an answer to my question, and figured I'd post here in case anyone else was having the same issue. Apparently it's a reported bug in the 2.4.0 gradle plugin. Bug report here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37636107