Android Studio: Android gradle plugin and JDKs

[nikitavlaev]

Description

Android Gradle plugin builds tests before execution on Android Studio.
We use Java 8 to generate and run tests.
Android Gradle plugin requires Java 11.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install Android Studio 2021.1.1
2. Open the 'ASDemo' project in Android Studio, or any other project
3. Set JDK8 as Gradle JDK
4. Use plugin to generate tests for any class in library
5. Open and run the generated test

Expected behavior

Test are supposed to be runnable correctly.

Actual behavior

Android plugin requires Java 11 to run tests.

Visual proofs (screenshots, logs, images)

Environment

Gradle JDK: 1.8

Additional context

There are possible workarounds:

1. Change Gradle JDK to 11 before running tests.
2. Create JUnit run configuration like below and turn on "Do not build before run"