I am new to android app development and trying to build my first app through android studio but when i started the android studio for app development i got following error in bottom console :

`FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Initialization script '/tmp/ijMapper1.gradle'

* What went wrong:
Could not compile initialization script '/tmp/ijMapper1.gradle'.
> startup failed:
  General error during semantic analysis: Unsupported class file major version 61

  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 61
    at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:196)
    at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:177)
    at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:163)
    at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.<init>(ClassReader.java:284)


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BUILD FAILED in 29s`

any help would be appreciated.

I tried to install android studio for app development and created new project for my first app and was expecting a basic app with nothing in interface.