Enable core library desugaring

News-Android-App/build.gradle

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ android {
         testInstrumentationRunnerArguments clearPackageData: 'true'
 
         vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
+
+        multiDexEnabled true
     }
 
     testOptions {
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ android {
     compileOptions {
         sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
         targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
+        coreLibraryDesugaringEnabled true
     }
 
     buildTypes {
@@ -189,6 +192,9 @@ dependencies {
 
     implementation 'com.nbsp:library:1.8' // MaterialFilePicker
 
+    implementation 'androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1'
+    coreLibraryDesugaring 'com.android.tools:desugar_jdk_libs:1.1.1'
+
     //extraImplementation 'com.github.tommus:youtube-android-player-api:1.2.2'
 
 

News-Android-App/src/main/java/de/luhmer/owncloudnewsreader/NewsReaderApplication.java

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 package de.luhmer.owncloudnewsreader;
 
-import android.app.Application;
+import androidx.multidex.MultiDexApplication;
 
 import de.luhmer.owncloudnewsreader.di.ApiModule;
 import de.luhmer.owncloudnewsreader.di.AppComponent;
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import de.luhmer.owncloudnewsreader.di.DaggerAppComponent;
 import de.luhmer.owncloudnewsreader.helper.AdBlocker;
 import de.luhmer.owncloudnewsreader.helper.ForegroundListener;
 
-public class NewsReaderApplication extends Application {
+public class NewsReaderApplication extends MultiDexApplication {
 
     protected AppComponent mAppComponent;
 

gradle.properties

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 # http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/multi_project_builds.html#sec:decoupled_projects
 # org.gradle.parallel=true
 
-ANDROID_BUILD_MIN_SDK_VERSION=17
+ANDROID_BUILD_MIN_SDK_VERSION=18
 ANDROID_BUILD_TARGET_SDK_VERSION=29
 ANDROID_BUILD_SDK_VERSION=29
 android.useAndroidX=true

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-#Fri Dec 04 19:59:05 CET 2020
+#Sun Dec 27 15:28:12 CET 2020
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5-all.zip