[Android Studio] KJaeg:
Hi, I am experiencing that famous ':app:preDexDebug'-error.

First of all: Cleaning the project or rebuilding it works without errors. Under default settings I set the project bytecode version to 1.7 and under SDK Location in the project structure the JDK location seems to be correct, too. After a while of researching I still did not find the solution for this problem.

The error occurs when I try to run the project under Android Studio. Like mentioned before, cleaning, rebuilding and syncing with Gradle works fine (looks like it - no errors).

This is what the gradle console shows:

Configuration on demand is an incubating feature.
:app:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:preDebugBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:compileDebugNdk UP-TO-DATE
:app:checkDebugManifest
:app:prepareDebugDependencies
:app:compileDebugAidl UP-TO-DATE
:app:compileDebugRenderscript UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugBuildConfig UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE
:app:mergeDebugAssets UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugResValues UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
:app:mergeDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
:app:processDebugManifest UP-TO-DATE
:app:processDebugResources UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugSources UP-TO-DATE
:app:compileDebugJava UP-TO-DATE
:app:preDexDebug
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION:","position":{},"original":"UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION:"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"com.android.dx.cf.iface.ParseException: bad class file magic (cafebabe) or version (0034.0000)","position":{},"original":"com.android.dx.cf.iface.ParseException: bad class file magic (cafebabe) or version (0034.0000)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.DirectClassFile.parse0(DirectClassFile.java:472)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.DirectClassFile.parse0(DirectClassFile.java:472)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.DirectClassFile.parse(DirectClassFile.java:406)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.DirectClassFile.parse(DirectClassFile.java:406)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.DirectClassFile.parseToInterfacesIfNecessary(DirectClassFile.java:388)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.DirectClassFile.parseToInterfacesIfNecessary(DirectClassFile.java:388)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.DirectClassFile.getMagic(DirectClassFile.java:251)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.DirectClassFile.getMagic(DirectClassFile.java:251)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processClass(Main.java:704)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processClass(Main.java:704)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processFileBytes(Main.java:673)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processFileBytes(Main.java:673)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.access$300(Main.java:83)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.access$300(Main.java:83)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main$1.processFileBytes(Main.java:602)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main$1.processFileBytes(Main.java:602)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processArchive(ClassPathOpener.java:284)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processArchive(ClassPathOpener.java:284)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processOne(ClassPathOpener.java:166)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processOne(ClassPathOpener.java:166)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.process(ClassPathOpener.java:144)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.process(ClassPathOpener.java:144)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processOne(Main.java:632)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processOne(Main.java:632)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processAllFiles(Main.java:510)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processAllFiles(Main.java:510)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:280)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:280)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:246)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:246)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:215)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:215)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"\tat com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:106)","position":{},"original":"\tat com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:106)"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"...while parsing impl/org/controlsfx/ImplUtils.class","position":{},"original":"...while parsing impl/org/controlsfx/ImplUtils.class"}
AGPBI: {"kind":"SIMPLE","text":"1 error; aborting","position":{},"original":"1 error; aborting"}

FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:preDexDebug'.
> com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_67\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

As you see below, I removed the "compile android. ..."-line in my build.gradle, but it still didn't work. So here is my gradle build file:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
compileSdkVersion 21
buildToolsVersion '22.0.1'
compileOptions.encoding = 'windows-1251'

defaultConfig {
applicationId "de.giessen.advenco.key2operate"
minSdkVersion 15
targetSdkVersion 21
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
compileOptions {
sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
}
}

dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
}

It looks like Gradle has some problems with my JDK, but I don't know what kind of and how to fix them. I hope you guys can help.