Bug: Unresolved dependencies error while building app

[letelete]

Summary:

Can't build the app, because of compiler unresolved dependencies errors, such as:

Failed to resolve: multidex
Failed to resolve: multidex-instrumentation

Steps to reproduce:

1. Clone development branch
2. Open project in your IDE
3. Build project

Expected behaviour:

Complete build

Observed behaviour:

As I mentioned before, there are unresolved dependencies errors:

Running ./gradlew --debug check logs:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:getDependencies'.
Could not find multidex.jar 

For more details, check pastebin where I've posted more details from logs
https://pastebin.com/XiXbYFAW

Device and Android version:

Mobile device doesn't matter here, so I'll just say that I'm using Android Studio as an IDE

Screenshots:

[letelete]

@miPlodder This issue appears in #907, #908. Fix for this issue might be #909

[MigDinny]

I was having this issue in my project after cloning it. I actually solved it by changing some stuff in build.gradle. I added it to .gitignore though.

UPDATE:

What I did was a temporary workaround in my computer. I increased minSdkVersion to 21 and removed multidex library dependency.

As described here, projects with minSdkVersion >= 21 do NOT require multidex library to be imported in build.gradle. That way I avoided that error.

This is only a temporary solution working as a workaround

[m-sameer]

@miPlodder I'm able to fix this issue by updating the compileSdkVersion and some dependencies. Can you please add this as a GCI task?