Cannot run Cordova app using “Google Android Emula

Question

It shows the following error when running the application using "Google Android Emulator".

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 stapp 1

How to fix the issue for Cordova application? I installed both Java 1.7 and 1.8 on the PC.

Severity    Code    Description Project File    Line    Suppression State
Error       java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0  stapp       1   
Error        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)   stapp       1   
Error        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800) stapp       1   
Error        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) stapp       1   
Error        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)    stapp       1   
Error        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)  stapp       1   
Error        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)  stapp       1   
Error        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)  stapp       1   
Error        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)  stapp       1   
Error        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)  stapp       1   
Error        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)   stapp       1   
Error        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)   stapp       1   
Error        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)   stapp       1   
Error        at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)   stapp       1   
Error       Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx512M   stapp       1   
Error       Exception in thread "main"  stapp       1   
Error       java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/android/dx/command/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0  stapp       1   
Error        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)   stapp       1   
Error        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800) stapp       1   
Error        at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) stapp       1   
Error        at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)    stapp       1   
Error        at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)  stapp       1   
Error        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)  stapp       1   
Error        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)  stapp       1   
Error        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)  stapp       1   
Error        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)  stapp       1   
Error        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)   stapp       1   
Error        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)   stapp       1   
Error        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)   stapp       1   
Error        at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)   stapp       1   
Error       Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx512M   stapp       1   
Error       Exception in thread "main"  stapp       1   
Error       FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.    stapp       1   
Error       * What went wrong:  stapp       1   
Error       Execution failed for task ':transformClassesWithDexForDebug'.   stapp       1   
Error       > com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_55\bin\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 1  stapp       1   
Error       * Try:  stapp       1   
Error       Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.  stapp       1   
Error       Error code 1 for command: cmd with args: /s,/c,"D:\Users\....\myapp\platforms\android\gradlew cdvBuildDebug -b D:\Users\....\myapp\platforms\android\build.gradle -Dorg.gradle.daemon=true -Pandroid.useDeprecatedNdk=true" stapp       1