NoClassDefFoundError: org/bouncycastle/asn1/edec/EdECObjectIdentifiers

[simonseyer]

Hello,

after upgrading the plugin we ran into an issue when executing Android tests with the Gradle task connectedDevDebugAndroidTest.

The error stated:

> org/bouncycastle/asn1/edec/EdECObjectIdentifiers
...
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/bouncycastle/asn1/edec/EdECObjectIdentifiers

• AGP version: 8.8.1
• org.owasp.dependencycheck: 12.1.0

I found out that people face the same issue with the SonarQube plugin: https://community.sonarsource.com/t/sonarqube-gradle-plugin-6-0-breaks-android-tasks/130863. The workaround of adding the following code block to the build.gradle file worked for me:

buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.bouncycastle:bcutil-jdk18on:1.79")
    }
}

There is a Google issue and this will apparently be fixed with AGP version 8.9: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/380600747

I wanted to share the issue and fix here to maybe save others a few hours of research.