Android Studio build error - Multiple dex files define Landroid/support/v4/

Question

I am unable to build my project in Android Studio. I get the following error:

Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] Unable to execute DX
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] com.android.dx.util.DexException: Multiple dex files define Landroid/support/v4/accessibilityservice/AccessibilityServiceInfoCompat$AccessibilityServiceInfoVersionImpl;
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.readSortableTypes(DexMerger.java:592)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.getSortedTypes(DexMerger.java:550)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeClassDefs(DexMerger.java:531)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeDexBuffers(DexMerger.java:168)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.merge(DexMerger.java:186)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.mergeLibraryDexBuffers(Main.java:300)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:232)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at org.jetbrains.android.compiler.tools.AndroidDxRunner.runDex(AndroidDxRunner.java:147)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at org.jetbrains.android.compiler.tools.AndroidDxRunner.main(AndroidDxRunner.java:276)
Error:Android Dex: [RaditazAndroid] at com.intellij.rt.execution.CommandLineWrapper.main(CommandLineWrapper.java:121)

However, this error means nothing to me. It does not provide clues as to where I should begin fixing my project. Has anybody encountered something similar?

score 44 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 18 '13 at 17:33

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For anyone who is interested, I solved my own problem. My mistake was that I had pasted android-support-v4.jar and google-play-services.jar in all of my project's module lib folders (my project consists of 3 modules). What I had to do instead was to paste these jars only into my main module's lib folder, and the other modules would automatically reference them.

answered Aug 18 '13 at 17:33

IgorGanapolsky

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this isnt the same cause for this issue i'm having... i'll post what i come up with for a solution when i get there – JMRboosties Oct 26 '13 at 00:05
@JMRboosties My experience has been that this error is due to duplicate jar files in lib folders. Is yours not the case? – IgorGanapolsky Oct 26 '13 at 02:17
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thx, solved. Having 2 copies of same sup library causes the error, i guess. – alicanbatur Nov 12 '13 at 07:45
ty for solution and comments this saved a lot of time for me! – WhileTrueSleep Feb 05 '15 at 09:00
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This worked, but I had to do a Rebuild Project to get the error to actually go away. – Lee Mar 10 '15 at 15:31
What if I've single module and gettin this error? @IgorGanapolsky – Kaushal28 Aug 18 '16 at 13:22
@NoOne This may be due to conflicting transitive dependencies in Gradle. Run `./gradlew -q app:dependencies` to find out which ones. – IgorGanapolsky Aug 18 '16 at 13:23
I'm beginner. Where should I run this? – Kaushal28 Aug 18 '16 at 13:53

fullmoon · Answer 2 · 2015-01-13T12:13:51.320

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Away from Android Studio, I opened the project in finder/workspace and did this:

1- MyProject folder -> build -> intermediate -> dex-cache -> cache.xml, and deleted all support-v4.jar items.

2- Also away from Android Studio, Went to every module in my project -> lib folder -> and deleted support-v4.jar as well.

Then cleaned the project and ran it and it worked thanks god :)

edited Jan 13 '15 at 12:13

answered Jan 13 '15 at 05:19

fullmoon

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solution works, I had problems with okhttp-2.5.0.jar. Then completing steps the project was builded. – Alexandr Dec 02 '15 at 06:14

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 10 '16 at 23:26

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I had the same error.Solved it by adding to gradle file.

    dependencies{
        compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:8.3.0'
        compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.0'
        compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.1.0'
    }

edited Jan 10 '16 at 23:26

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answered Dec 16 '15 at 09:08

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score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 20 '16 at 10:13

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In case you have:

compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:24.2.0'
compile('com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.2.0') { exclude group: 'com.google.android', module: 'support-v4' }

in your project, add also:

compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:24.2.0'

or

compile 'com.android.support:design:24.2.0'

answered Sep 20 '16 at 10:13

careful7j

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You saved my life after 3 days of work trying to figure out what happened with the AS nonsense. It is simply irritating to see that Google engineers are doing nothing to mitigate our pain. – The_Martian Sep 27 '16 at 20:16

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 30 '13 at 08:44

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In my case the problem was in module sdk version. I changed it from 2.2 to 4.4 and the problem was solved.

answered Dec 30 '13 at 08:44

3akat

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Do you mean minSdkVersion or targetSdkVersion? – IgorGanapolsky Dec 30 '13 at 18:39
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I meant builder's sdk version. Look at: Project Structure->Modules->Module SDK – 3akat Jan 04 '14 at 13:14

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 13 '15 at 06:37

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I had the same error.

Removing a library(jtwitter.jar) form my-project/app/libs folder helped me.

Then cleaned the project and ran it and it worked.

answered Feb 13 '15 at 06:37

shoaib shaikh

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score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 03 '16 at 21:12

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Clean and rebuild was all it took for mine to start working.

answered Mar 03 '16 at 21:12

tg2

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score 3 · Answer 8 · answered May 04 '16 at 08:45

In case someone else was having this problem with the Project Tango examples provided via Github, I solved it by commenting the following line out in the app's build.gradle file for those projects which failed to run:

compile fileTree(dir: external_lib_prefix + '/jar', include: ['**/*.jar'])

score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 01 '14 at 14:23

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I used a different approach by merging ABS res folder with my res folder and using ActionBarSherlock.jar as a global lib.

Works well so far and hope this help someone! But this is a hack since I was fed up of doing many things and I can't use Gradle since some of the other developers using Eclipse ADT without Gradle.

Root Cause for the issue is using android-support-v4 in ABS and my project both and it's complicating DEX.

answered Feb 01 '14 at 14:23

Gayan Pathirage

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Sounds good. Supposedly you can use Gradle in Eclipse, although I've never tried it. Anyhow, I'm in a similar position - where I use Gradle in Android Studio - and none of my teammates do. But I found that I can still use it without conflicting with others. – IgorGanapolsky Feb 02 '14 at 15:01

score 1 · Answer 10 · answered Mar 29 '17 at 20:51

I had same issue in Android Studio 2.3, in my case I had a mixture of version numbers which threw the build out, I changed:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:7.5.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:7.5.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-drive:8.4.0'
}

to

dependencies {
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:8.4.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:8.4.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-drive:8.4.0'
}

vikas kumar · Answer 11 · 2018-08-18T12:44:41.847

For others wondering why this problem still persist even doing all other things suggested, This may help.

For me problem started when i added Glide library

dependencies {
  .........
  implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.8.0'
  .........
}

and i had added already.

implementation 'com.android.support:design:26.1.0'

Which was contradicting with Glide support library somewhere.

Solution: Remove or downgrade your Glide support version.

 implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.0.0'

Android Studio build error - Multiple dex files define Landroid/support/v4/

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