Go to your build.gradle
file and add the following line:
packagingOptions {
exclude 'META-INF/license.txt'
}
In my case I had to add like this one:
apply plugin: 'com.android.library'
android {
compileSdkVersion 21
buildToolsVersion "21.1.2"
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion 14
targetSdkVersion 21
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"
}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
packagingOptions {
exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
}
}
dependencies {
compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:6.5.87'
compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
compile 'com.mcxiaoke.volley:library:1.0.15'
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.2.4'
compile "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.4.1"
compile "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime:4.3.6"
}
Note:
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Meta-files doesn’t affect any programmatic functions of application. Meta files basically contains Textual information like legal-notice, Licences etc of open sources libraries. Excluding it will not affect any thing.
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When we use multiple 3rd party open source libraries, sometimes 2 or more projects has same named text files (Example: License.txt or Notice.txt or dependencies.txt). That causes the conflict during build time. In that moment our mighty android studio suggest us to exclude those conflicting meta files.