Build failed android, deprecated features

Question

Was trying to get the MPAndroidCharts to work

Error:FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:transformResourcesWithMergeJavaResForDebug'.

  More than one file was found with OS independent path 'META-INF/proguard/androidx-annotations.pro'

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• Get more help at https://help.gradle.org BUILD FAILED in 46s

Answer 1

Add this piece of code in your application level build.gradle file.

packagingOptions {
    exclude 'META-INF/proguard/androidx-annotations.pro'
}

Answer 2

You can specify gradle to pick first (i.e. only one)

packagingOptions {
    pickFirst 'META-INF/proguard/androidx-annotations.pro'
}