Android Gradle plugin requires Java 11 to run
When using an outdated version of Android Studio, you may encounter the following error message:
> Failed to apply plugin 'com.android.internal.application'. > Android Gradle plugin requires Java 11 to run. You are currently using Java 1.8. You can try some of the following options: - changing the IDE settings. - changing the JAVA_HOME environment variable. - changing `org.gradle.java.home` in `gradle.properties`.
As a requirement to run, PSPDFKit for React Native needs the latest stable version of Android Studio. Starting with version 4.2
, Android Studio is now bundled with JDK 11.
Once the installation has completed, enter the following in your terminal app:
java -version
Then, verify that the JDK version has been correctly updated to 11:
openjdk version "11.0.10" 2021-01-19
OpenJDK Runtime Environment AdoptOpenJDK (build 11.0.10+9)
Eclipse OpenJ9 VM AdoptOpenJDK (build openj9-0.24.0, JRE 11 Mac OS X amd64-64-Bit Compressed References 20210120_897 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
OpenJ9 - 345e1b09e
OMR - 741e94ea8
JCL - 0a86953833 based on jdk-11.0.10+9)