Android Studio 3.0 fails during desugar task due to guava's java 8 classes

[okmanideep]

implementation "com.google.auto.value:auto-value:1.5"

causes

Error:com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveBuilderException: Error while dexing autovalue/shaded/com/google$/common/collect/$Multimaps.class
Error:com.android.dx.cf.code.SimException: default or static interface method used without --min-sdk-version >= 24
Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithDexBuilderForQaDebug'.
> com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveBuilderException: com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveBuilderException: Failed to process /Users/ashwinikumar/Documents/Projects/android/app/build/intermediates/transforms/desugar/qa/debug/132.jar
Information:BUILD FAILED in 1m 30s

Although this issue disappears when you enable the new D8 dexer. It is not production ready as of now.

The only possible solution was to remove the implementation or compileOnly dependency on auto value and add the AutoValue annotation to the project manually as suggested in one of the issue comments

[JakeWharton]

Using implementation for AutoValue is incorrect. It should be on the annotationProcessor classpath. You can use https://github.com/JakeWharton/AutoValueAnnotations on compileOnly for access to the annotations.

D8 is production ready as it is the default in AS / AGP 3.1.

[okmanideep]

Fixed with 1.6 and a separate artifact for annotations :auto-value-annotations.

Gradle dependencies now look like

implementation             "com.google.auto.value:auto-value-annotations:1.6"
annotationProcessor        "com.google.auto.value:auto-value:1.6"