# Ionic run Android RC0 Error

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-run-android-rc0-error/65682>\
**Category:** ionic-v3\
**Created:** [October 4, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-run-android-rc0-error/65682 "2016-10-04T08:17:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![nitishrajput01](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/nitishrajput01/32/123978_2.png) [@nitishrajput01](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/nitishrajput01)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-run-android-rc0-error/65682/1 "2016-10-04T08:17:26Z")

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Hi i am trying to run my project on emulator but i am getting this error any solution ?                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                             
:compileDebugSources                                                                                                         
 UP-TO-DATE                                                                                                                  
:transformClassesWithDexForDebug                                                                                             
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$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)                                                            
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)                                                        
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)                                                        
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)                                                             
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)                                                     
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)                                                             
        at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)                                             
Exception in thread "main"      

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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 sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)                                                     
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)                                                             
    at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)                                             

```

Exception in thread “main”

FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

- What went wrong:

Execution failed for task ‘:transformClassesWithDexForDebug’.

> 

com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process ‘command ‘C:\Program File  
s\Java\jdk1.7.0\_79\bin\java.exe’’ finished with non-zero exit value 1

- Try:  
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. BUILD FAILED

Total time: 27.984 secs

Error: Error code 1 for command: cmd with args: /s,/c,“c:\Users\nitish.kumar.IDS-LOGIC\Desktop\Nk\sqlite\Ovulation\platforms  
android\gradlew cdvBuildDebug -b c:\Users\nitish.kumar.IDS-LOGIC\Desktop\Nk\sqlite\Ovulation\platforms\android\build.gradle -  
PcdvBuildArch=x86 -Dorg.gradle.daemon=true -Pandroid.useDeprecatedNdk=true”

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**Author:** ![reedrichards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@reedrichards](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/reedrichards)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-run-android-rc0-error/65682/2 "2016-10-04T08:41:22Z")

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  major.minor version 52.0   

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sounds like a java problem to me. something which occurs when you want to run a code which was compilated with a newer version of java of the one you use to run (like compilated with java 8 and running it with java 7)

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**Author:** ![nitishrajput01](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/nitishrajput01/32/123978_2.png) [@nitishrajput01](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/nitishrajput01)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-run-android-rc0-error/65682/3 "2016-10-04T09:04:13Z")

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@reedrichardsm

Hi Thanks for your reply do you know how to resolve that issue ? Actually I am using java 7

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**Author:** ![reedrichards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@reedrichards](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/reedrichards)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-run-android-rc0-error/65682/4 "2016-10-04T09:52:17Z")

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Well can’t unfortunately give you the right answer ☹ Also I’m just guessing…but maybe some clues: How do you build your app? Which comman(s) did you run? Which JDK are installed on your computer? How is your JAVA\_HOME defined?

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**Author:** ![nitishrajput01](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/nitishrajput01/32/123978_2.png) [@nitishrajput01](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/nitishrajput01)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-run-android-rc0-error/65682/5 "2016-10-04T10:20:08Z")

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@reedrichards

well thanks for reply finally working.

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**Author:** ![reedrichards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@reedrichards](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/reedrichards)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-run-android-rc0-error/65682/6 "2016-10-04T10:49:18Z")

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coolio. just for the record, briefly how did you solve your issue?

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**Author:** ![nitishrajput01](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/nitishrajput01/32/123978_2.png) [@nitishrajput01](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/nitishrajput01)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 10:52am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-run-android-rc0-error/65682/7 "2016-10-04T10:52:16Z")

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Well I changed the Java\_Home path to new jdk directory in enviroment variable that resolve this issue

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**Author:** ![reedrichards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@reedrichards](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/reedrichards)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-run-android-rc0-error/65682/8 "2016-10-04T10:53:08Z")

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thx for the feedback. could be helpful one day 😉
