Android studio não compila nem executa aplicativo

Olá pessoal. Esses últimos dias venho estudado um pouco sobre os conceitos fundamentais para programação android. Acabei baixando o Android Studio, instalei normalmente e fui tentar programar algo. Um simples hello world não executou no Android Studio e apresentou a seguinte pilha:

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Information:Gradle tasks [:app:clean, :app:generateDebugSources, :app:generateDebugAndroidTestSources, :app:mockableAndroidJar, :app:prepareDebugUnitTestDependencies, :app:assembleDebug]
:app:clean
:app:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:preDebugBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:checkDebugManifest
:app:preReleaseBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportAnimatedVectorDrawable2340Library
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportAppcompatV72340Library
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportSupportV42340Library
:app:prepareComAndroidSupportSupportVectorDrawable2340Library
:app:prepareDebugDependencies
:app:compileDebugAidl
:app:compileDebugRenderscript
:app:generateDebugBuildConfig
:app:mergeDebugShaders
:app:compileDebugShaders
:app:generateDebugAssets
:app:mergeDebugAssets
:app:generateDebugResValues UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugResources
:app:mergeDebugResources
:app:processDebugManifest
:app:processDebugResources
:app:generateDebugSources
:app:preDebugAndroidTestBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareDebugAndroidTestDependencies
:app:compileDebugAndroidTestAidl
:app:processDebugAndroidTestManifest
:app:compileDebugAndroidTestRenderscript
:app:generateDebugAndroidTestBuildConfig
:app:mergeDebugAndroidTestShaders
:app:compileDebugAndroidTestShaders
:app:generateDebugAndroidTestAssets
:app:mergeDebugAndroidTestAssets
:app:generateDebugAndroidTestResValues UP-TO-DATE
:app:generateDebugAndroidTestResources
:app:mergeDebugAndroidTestResources
:app:processDebugAndroidTestResources
:app:generateDebugAndroidTestSources
:app:mockableAndroidJar UP-TO-DATE
:app:preDebugUnitTestBuild UP-TO-DATE
:app:prepareDebugUnitTestDependencies
:app:incrementalDebugJavaCompilationSafeguard
:app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac
:app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac - is not incremental (e.g. outputs have changed, no previous execution, etc.).
:app:compileDebugNdk UP-TO-DATE
:app:compileDebugSources
:app:buildInfoDebugLoader
:app:transformClassesWithExtractJarsForDebug
:app:transformClassesWithInstantRunVerifierForDebug
:app:transformClassesWithJavaResourcesVerifierForDebug UP-TO-DATE
:app:mergeDebugJniLibFolders
:app:transformNative_libsWithMergeJniLibsForDebug
:app:processDebugJavaRes UP-TO-DATE
:app:transformResourcesWithMergeJavaResForDebug
:app:transformResourcesAndNative_libsWithJavaResourcesVerifierForDebug UP-TO-DATE
:app:transformClassesWithInstantRunForDebug
:app:transformClasses_enhancedWithInstant+reloadDexForDebug UP-TO-DATE
:app:incrementalDebugTasks
:app:prePackageMarkerForDebug
:app:fastDeployDebugExtractor
:app:generateDebugInstantRunAppInfo
:app:coldswapKickerDebug
:app:transformClassesWithInstantRunSlicerForDebug
:app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug
To run dex in process, the Gradle daemon needs a larger heap.
It currently has approximately 910 MB.
For faster builds, increase the maximum heap size for the Gradle daemon to more than 2048 MB.
To do this set org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048M in the project gradle.properties.
For more information see https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html
Error:java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
Error: at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
Error: at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
Error: at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
Error: at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
Error: at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
Error: at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
Error: at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
Error: at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
Error: at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
Error: at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
Error: at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
Error: at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
Error: at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)
Error:Exception in thread “main”
:app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug FAILED
Error:Execution failed for task ‘:app:transformClassesWithDexForDebug’.
com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process ‘command ‘C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_75\bin\java.exe’’ finished with non-zero exit value 1
Information:BUILD FAILED
Information:Total time: 11.25 secs
Information:16 errors
Information:0 warnings
Information:See complete output in console

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Gostaria de saber o que posso fazer para consertar esse erro? Desde já agradeço a ajuda.

Isso pode ser um bug numa versão específica do Gradle.

Me mostra o conteúdo do arquivo build.gradle(module:app).