Teammates: Fix IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

Created on 20 Jul 2017 · 4Comments · Source: TEAMMATES/teammates

When upgrading to IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2, the following error is shown:
Error:com/android/builder/model/AndroidProject : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0. Please use JDK 8 or newer.

It seems that there is a new coupling for the Gradle integration with Android projects, not sure if this is intended but this is probably a bug in IntelliJ IDEA.

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LiHaoTan

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As discovered by @LiHaoTan, the workaround is simple - just change the Gradle JVM settings to Java 8 in IntelliJ preferences (the main project SDK remains at Java 7 and works fine).

whipermr5 on 20 Jul 2017

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As discovered by @LiHaoTan, the workaround is simple - just change the Gradle JVM settings to Java 8 in IntelliJ preferences (the main project SDK remains at Java 7 and works fine).

whipermr5 on 20 Jul 2017

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There seems to be an issue changing the Gradle JVM to Java 8 as IntelliJ will force the project SDK to be Java 8 as well.

The workaround from Jetbrains is to temporarily disable the Android Support plugin until Jetbrains pushes an update for the fix.

See: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-176192

LiHaoTan on 20 Jul 2017

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The fix has been pushed through IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2.2 since August 15, 2017 and this issue can now be closed.

LiHaoTan on 10 Sep 2017

@whipermr5 looks good for your solution currently,thanks