The problem: I'm currently using Android Studio and Gradle to compile code from a github repository (00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon) and while I can run some tasks (tried 'desktop:release', 'desktop:debug'), gradle refuses to sync properly and every time I try to do it, an error log pops up:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
'void org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipFile.<init>(java.nio.channels.SeekableByteChannel)'
* Try:
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* Exception is:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'void org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipFile.<init>(java.nio.channels.SeekableByteChannel)'
at com.android.repository.util.InstallerUtil.unzip(InstallerUtil.java:99)
Important: I've had this issue before (while compiling previous version of this code) and back then downloading a specific version of SDK build tools (30.0.0 and 26.0.0 if I recall correctly) helped, however this doesn't help anymore.
Other people using this code don't report the same issue and I seem to be the only one.
Also for some reason android tasks also don't seem to work, as if the android studio didn't recognize them:
Task 'release' not found in project ':android'.
* Try:
Run gradle tasks to get a list of available tasks. Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
What I've tried:
Additional info:
Generally, when you install android studio it will install the latest SDK and latest build tool version which is not compatible with the existing projects.
According to the build.gradle present in 00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon
You should try installing the SDK version 30. And the SDK build tool version: 30.0.X. It should work.
For me, it is working with SDK version 30 and build tool version 30.0.3.
And just make sure you have java version 8 as mentioned in build.gradle.
Try to install Android 11.0 (R) or Android 12.00 (S) on the SDK Platform tab on the Android SDK. That fixed the issue for me
For anyone looking for more information, this specific issue has been covered in Google's issue tracker. In short, the problem stems from mismatched dependency resolution of Apache's commons-compress between robovm-gradle-plugin and Gradle itself. As for Shattered Pixel Dungeon, the fix is present in this commit.