[FIXED] Unable to build apk in flutter

Issue

I am running flutter build apk --obfuscate --split-debug-info=./build/info to build android apk

How can I fix the following error?

Running "flutter pub get" in myapp...
1.0s You are building a fat APK that includes binaries for android-arm, android-arm64, android-x64. If you are deploying the app to the Play Store, it's recommended to use app bundles or split the APK to reduce the APK size. To generate an app bundle, run: flutter build appbundle --target-platform android-arm,android-arm64,android-x64 Learn more on: https://developer.android.com/guide/app-bundle To split the APKs per ABI, run: flutter build apk --target-platform android-arm,android-arm64,android-x64 --split-per-abi Learn more on: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/configure-apk-splits#configure-abi-split Plugin project :location_web not found. Please update settings.gradle.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:lintVitalRelease'.

Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'. Failed to transform libs.jar to match attributes {artifactType=processed-jar, org.gradle.libraryelements=jar, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. > Execution failed for JetifyTransform: C:\Projects\myapp\myapp\build\app\intermediates\flutter\debug\libs.jar. > Transform's input file does not exist: C:\Projects\myapp\myapp\build\app\intermediates\flutter\debug\libs.jar. (See https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/158753935)

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BUILD FAILED in 1m 19s Running Gradle task 'assembleRelease'... Running Gradle task 'assembleRelease'... Done
79.8s Gradle task assembleRelease failed with exit code 1

Solution

Try this modification in your build.gradle(app level)

lintOptions {
     // Code...
     checkReleaseBuilds false
     // Added the above line so that 'flutter build apk' could work
}

See this issue on Github

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/58247

My solution is based on this comment (This one worked for me) https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/58247#issuecomment-636253593

This comment provides some depth on the issue https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/58247#issuecomment-636500680

Answered By - ASAD HAMEED