https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/157926129

You can build with R8 lastversion by making the following change to build.gradle:

buildscript {
       dependencies {
       classpath 'com.android.tools:r8:8.9.35'            // Must be before the Gradle Plugin for Android.
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:X.Y.Z' // Your current AGP version.
     }
}