"Execution of compression failed" error when building project in Android Studio 3.1

I also run into this problem lately. This happened because I included a very large zip file in the assets. I fixed this issue by adding dexoptions in app build.gradle

android {
    dexOptions {
        javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
    } 
}

And increasing JVM heap size

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4608M

like this.Go to gradle.properties to find this option.