I am trying to run my application on my phone but during build
time it fails with the following error:
Execution failed for task ':app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug'.
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveMergerException: Unable to merge dex
What I tried so far, but to no avail:
-> Clean and rebuild (fails on rebuild)
-> Remove ./gradle
file and all project build and cache files, then cache invalidation
My project gradle file:
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
buildscript {
ext.kotlin_version = '1.1.51'
repositories {
jcenter()
google()
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-beta6'
// NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
// in the individual module build.gradle files
classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
jcenter()
google()
mavenCentral()
}
}
task clean(type: Delete) {
delete rootProject.buildDir
}
My app Gradle file:
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
def daggerVersion = '2.11'
android {
compileSdkVersion 25
buildToolsVersion "26.0.2"
defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.connectus.connectus"
minSdkVersion 16
targetSdkVersion 25
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
packagingOptions {
exclude 'META-INF/INDEX.LIST'
}
}
kapt {
generateStubs = true
}
dependencies {
/**
* Kotlin
*/
compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$kotlin_version"
compile 'org.jetbrains.anko:anko-support-v4:0.10.1'
/**
* Unit testing
*/
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:1.10.19'
testCompile 'org.powermock:powermock-module-junit4:1.6.2'
testCompile 'org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito:1.6.2'
/**
* Android views and widgets
*/
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1'
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:25.3.1'
compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:25.3.1'
/**
* Retrofit
*/
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.+'
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.+'
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:adapter-rxjava:2.+'
compile 'io.reactivex:rxjava:1.0.4'
compile 'io.reactivex:rxandroid:0.24.0'
/**
* Glide
*/
compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.7.0'
/**
* Dagger 2
*/
kapt "com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:$daggerVersion"
compile "com.google.dagger:dagger:$daggerVersion"
provided 'org.glassfish:javax.annotation:10.0-b28'
/**
* Butterknife for view injection
*/
compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:8.8.1'
kapt 'com.jakewharton:butterknife-compiler:8.8.1'
/**
* GSON
*/
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.6.2'
compile 'org.powermock:powermock-api-mockito:1.6.2'
/**
* Facebook SDK
*/
compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-login:[4,5)'
/**
* UI Testing
*/
androidTestCompile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:25.3.1'
androidTestCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
testCompile 'com.google.dexmaker:dexmaker:1.2'
testCompile 'com.google.dexmaker:dexmaker-mockito:1.2'
androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2') {
exclude module: 'support-annotations'
}
androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-contrib:2.2.2') {
exclude module: 'support-annotations'
exclude module: 'appcompat-v7'
exclude module: 'support-v4'
exclude module: 'support-v13'
exclude module: 'recyclerview-v7'
exclude module: 'design'
}
androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test:runner:0.3') {
exclude module: 'support-annotations'
}
androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test:rules:0.3') {
exclude module: 'support-annotations'
}
compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jre7:$kotlin_version"
implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
}
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
I am using Kotlin and Android Studio 3.0.0 beta 6. What is the problem?
3
Answers
Although I am not completely sure about the cause for this, it seems, after doing some digging, that there is a version clash between the annotation libraries included by jetbrains in the kotlin plugin and somewhere else. You can verify this by running
gradle :app:assembleDebug --stacktrace
which gives, at the end,
I solved this by excluding the annotations library from kotlin dependency. (Clean and rebuild might be needed after this)
This works for me, but I am not sure about how good this solution is.
I managed to fix it by just including the base play services and not the full ones:
and removed the appindexing dependencies in my Activity:
(though this might have been a leftover anyway from my upgrade to API 27).
add this
like this:
}