Intelij idea error compiling Adobe Air for Android - dx tool failed

Question

Today I randomly started getting the following error when trying to compile my Adobe Air App from InteliJ Idea.

Failed to package AIR application FARQAndroidFree.apk:
            dx tool failed:
            UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL ERROR:
            java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
            at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3181)
            at java.util.ArrayList.grow(ArrayList.java:261)
            at java.util.ArrayList.ensureExplicitCapacity(ArrayList.java:235)
            at java.util.ArrayList.ensureCapacityInternal(ArrayList.java:227)
            at java.util.ArrayList.add(ArrayList.java:458)
            at com.android.dx.ssa.Dominators$DfsWalker.visitBlock(Dominators.java:263)
            at com.android.dx.ss...
            [Full error message]
            [ADT command line]

I'm using the Adobe AIR SDK 28

Answer 1

Try increasing the amount of memory available to the Java runtime used by IntelliJ to package your application.

You will find this in:

Preferences / Build ... / Compiler / Actionscript ... / Compiler heap size

Try somewhere in the 512 - 1024 Mb mark.