Android build fails - too many files?

[adonnini (Alex)]

Building of my Android app fails with the following error:

Task :app:packageDebug FAILED

Execution failed for task ‘:app:packageDebug’.

A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.tasks.PackageAndroidArtifact$IncrementalSplitterRunnable
Zip64 required but forbidden (#entries=68889, cd=(offset=323,842,447, size=8,441,701))

I searched through the posts for information on enabling the zip64 option in build.gradle for my Android Java app.

I did find a reference to zip64 configuration in this forum conversation from 2016

When the shadowJar task encounters too many entries to zip32, it shows a generic error message about enabling zip64, but doesn’t actually provide the configuration snippet needed to accomplish this. The error message links to a doc page, which also neglects to mention the snippet needed. FYI, it’s: shadowJar { zip64 true } It might not look like much, but it can often be difficult to guess these sorts of valid configuration syntaxes.

However, simply following the suggestion in the post causes build.gradle to fail

I added the shadowJar plugin to my app following the instructions in
https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.github.johnrengelman.shadow
(for legacy plugin app)

It did not seem to make any difference as the documentation made no reference (that I could find) to the zip64 option. And, here I could be mistakenly identify the shwdowJar element with the ShadowJar plugin.

At this point, I am stuck.

I am using
Android Studio ArcticFox 2020.3.1 Patch 2
Gradle 7.2
Android Gradle plugin 7.0.2

I hope someone can help me how to resolve this problem.

Thanks,

Alex Donnini