After importing unity ads package builder shows Unable to convert into dex format error

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Hi.
Unity is showing 2 very similar errors in one time after adding unity ads. It is showing on building. Even if it is empty project with only ads.
I was trying to find duplicated files, but i haven’t found any duplicates. Forum solves of this problem don’t work for me. I tried to use all of this which I found.
I am trying to solve this problem for really lot of time like 20 hours, but it doesn’t work still.
First error:
CommandInvokationFailure: Unable to convert classes into dex format. See the Console for details.
C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0_79\bin\java.exe -Xmx2048M -Dcom.android.sdkmanager.toolsdir=“C:/Users/andrzej/AppData/Local/Android/sdk\tools” -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -jar “C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer/Tools\sdktools.jar” -

stderr[
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:274)
at SDKMain.main(SDKMain.java:127)
]
stdout[

]
UnityEditor.Android.Command.Run (System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo psi, UnityEditor.Android.WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg)
UnityEditor.Android.AndroidSDKTools.RunCommandInternal (System.String javaExe, System.String sdkToolsDir, System.String[ ] sdkToolCommand, Int32 memoryMB, System.String workingdir, UnityEditor.Android.WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg)
UnityEditor.Android.AndroidSDKTools.RunCommandSafe (System.String javaExe, System.String sdkToolsDir, System.String[ ] sdkToolCommand, Int32 memoryMB, System.String workingdir, UnityEditor.Android.WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg)

Second error:
Error building Player: CommandInvokationFailure: Unable to convert classes into dex format. See the Console for details.
C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0_79\bin\java.exe -Xmx2048M -Dcom.android.sdkmanager.toolsdir=“C:/Users/andrzej/AppData/Local/Android/sdk\tools” -Dfile.encoding=UTF8 -jar “C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer/Tools\sdktools.jar” -

stderr[
Exception in thread “main” java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:274)
at SDKMain.main(SDKMain.java:127)
]
stdout[

]

Best Regards.

2

My only guess is that whatever API corresponds to Android 5.1 is needed minimum, have no idea otherwise what the problem is… If you haven’t upgraded your android SDK lately, now’s a good time to do so.

3

You are using Java 1.7:

But the classes that are attempted to be parsed were compiled using a higher version compiler:

Major.minor version 52.0 means Java 8.

You should install the latest JDK 8 and point Unity to use that. This should be fix your issue.

4

Huh, so it was the Java version… maybe Unity should update their minimum requirements with the required JDK version, unless it’s already there…

5

It’s not a requirement - you may use all sorts of plugins, also ones that are compatible with the current Java installation you have.

They can probably add a recommendation to always use the latest version of the JDK or something similar.

6

Good idea, maybe even a warning that lower version JDKs might stuff things up with newer version binaries.

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