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I am in a world of trouble. In a position of inheriting an Android App in Java with a team of C# .Net developers.

I am getting an (Access Denied) error to the projects root app folder C:Usersuser.nameDevelopmenttheprojectapp

The project builds, cleans and rebuilds no problem but on debug or run, it fails at this step app:transformDexWithInstantRunDependenciesApkForDebug.

In the research so far I am getting lost in setting application permissions in the manifest.xml file but this feels more like a local machine folder permission issue more than an application issue.

I have tried running Android Studio in Adminstrator mode and both it and the emulator appear to be running under my username. I have administration priviliges to my machine.

Any help greatly appreciated. I had never heard of gradle until yesterday.

This is done as you have used multilibrary and the methods exceed the limits.

Modify your build.gradle:

dependencies 
implementation 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.3'

include this in application class :

public class YouApplication extends Application 

@Override
protected void attachBaseContext(Context base) 
 super.attachBaseContext(base);
 MultiDex.install(this);

Add this class name to the manifest

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 package="com.example.android.multidex.myapplication">
 <application
 ...
 android:name="android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication">
 ...
 </application>
</manifest>