Problem "Entry name 'META-INF...' collide - Android

Question

I have added some things to my mobile application, such as adds or animation-lists. The thing is that I could generate APKs perfectly some days ago and, since the moment y added those things, Android Studio does not let me generate them. It has the following error.

Entry name 'META-INF/androidx.vectordrawable_vectordrawable.version' collided

Or these other ones:

Execution failed for task ':app:packageDebug'. A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade Entry name 'META-INF/androidx.vectordrawable_vectordrawable.version' collided

I have no idea what could get wrong. Thank you so much.

Does this answer your question? [Android Studio 0.4 Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/LICENSE.txt](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20827885/android-studio-0-4-duplicate-files-copied-in-apk-meta-inf-license-txt) Try to use `exclude "META-INF/androidx.vectordrawable**"` — Nicolas, Jun 09 '20 at 23:47

score 55 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '20 at 16:16

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I had the similar problem with "META-INF/androidx.gridlayout_gridlayout.version' collided". It took my 4 hours and finally i resolved it. Method which worked for me i am not sure that will for you too but you can try. go to Menu Build > Rebuild Project thats it.

answered Jul 07 '20 at 16:16

Yam

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Clear the build using Menu -> Build -> Clean project, and it worked. – Malay M Aug 17 '20 at 10:17
For some weird reason I had to 'Clean Project' twice before it worked. – King Of The Jungle Oct 20 '20 at 16:43
Menu -> Build -> Clean project, worked for me. Thanks – Ornelio Chauque Oct 27 '20 at 17:30
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Though I feel this will work in most situation, this did not really solve mine. @tmt 's answer worked: remove/rename the already-generated apk (and json). – Samuel T. Chou Dec 22 '20 at 09:41
`Build > Rebuild Project` helped me with `Entry name 'META-INF/androidx.preference_preference.version' collided` error. – CoolMind Mar 23 '21 at 13:42
Also you can try use something like that at your build.gradle(:app) : ``` applicationVariants.all { variant -> variant.outputs.all { outputFileName = "../../(" + System.currentTimeMillis() + ")" + outputFileName } } ``` – GSD.Aaz Jul 23 '21 at 15:12

score 22 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '20 at 11:00

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In my case in the output directory there has already been a file called app-debug.apk and for whatever reason the android sdk could not overwrite it. The apk has been generated as soon as I deleted or renamed the old version.

answered Oct 30 '20 at 11:00

tmt

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Thanks for this answer!! this solved my problem too. – Jose R Dec 28 '20 at 04:54
this should be marked as the answer, brilliant, thank you! – mikebld May 10 '21 at 12:42
See similar [error](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60406047) and [possible solutions](https://stackoverflow.com/a/68501093/1633493) – GSD.Aaz Jul 23 '21 at 15:05

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 01 '21 at 08:01

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Delete the previous APK you build and try again. it helps me to solve this issue.

answered Feb 01 '21 at 08:01

developer

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 24 '20 at 07:51

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Click on Build -> Clean Project
Click on File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart

Still you have the same error then delete debug and release folder from the app folder then restart the IDE

answered Sep 24 '20 at 07:51

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score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 30 '20 at 10:18

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Use in the below steps will working perfectly.

Menu -> Build -> Clean project

that's all. Enjoy your coding.

answered Sep 30 '20 at 10:18

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 14 '20 at 15:11

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I had the same problem with my project Clean Project, as well as Rebuild Project, which worked for me.

answered Sep 14 '20 at 15:11

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 29 '20 at 04:42

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In my case, I just rebuild the project. solved my problem

answered Nov 29 '20 at 04:42

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score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Jul 23 '21 at 09:53

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In my case , I deleted the debug and release directory

answered Jul 23 '21 at 09:53

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 23 '21 at 15:11

Solution Clean Project works, but it is not useful do clean every time before Run.
So I created the the issue. And at issue' comments I got link to another issue, then I got solution, which works for me.

My project has the following lines at build.gradle(:app) specially for TeamCity

applicationVariants.all { variant ->
    variant.outputs.all {
        outputFileName = "../../" + outputFileName
    }
}

But it crash local build process.

So I just add condition and fix the issue!

applicationVariants.all { variant ->
    variant.outputs.all {
        if (rootProject.hasProperty("teamcity"))
            outputFileName = "../../" + outputFileName
    }
}

vimlesh yadav · Answer 10 · 2022-08-29T09:26:18.890

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sometimes cleaning and rebuilding the project is enough to resolve the issue but if not you can delete a previously generated debug apk from a project folder. generally, it happens when you create a building project first time after switching the branch or getting the latest changes from git, or changing the build variant.

edited Aug 29 '22 at 09:26

answered Aug 29 '22 at 09:25

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