Android Studio Google JAR file causing GC overhead limit exceeded error

Android Studio 3.5.3

Find the Memory Settings (Cmd + Shift + A on Mac or click on Help and start typing "Memory Settings") under Preferences/ Settings and increase the IDE Heap Size and/ or the Daemon Heap Size to your satisfaction

This new issue is caused by the latest version of Android.

Go to your project root folder, open gradle.properties, and add the following options:

org.gradle.daemon=true

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

org.gradle.parallel=true

org.gradle.configureondemand=true

Then add these changes in your build.gradle file:

dexOptions {
        incremental = true
        preDexLibraries = false
        javaMaxHeapSize "4g" // 2g should be also OK
}

I think there's a separate way to raise the heap limit of the dexing operation. Add this to your android closure in your build.gradle file:

dexOptions {
    javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
}

and see if that helps.

(idea courtesy of this answer from Scott Barta)

In my case, to increase the heap-size looks like this:

Using Android Studio 1.1.0

android {
    dexOptions {
        incremental true
        javaMaxHeapSize "2048M"
    }
}

Put the above code in your Build.gradle file.