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Caused by: com.android.builder.dexing.dexarchivemergerexception: error while merging dex archives:

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Problem :

I have the Android Studio Beta. I have created the new project with compiling my old modules but when I tried launching my app it did not launch and it gave me the below message:

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug'.
com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveMergerException: Unable to merge dex

But I am unable to know how to fix above error. I researched on this for hours but with no success.

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Solution :

Sometimes you only need to eliminate the warnings and your error will be disappeared automatically. Please see below special case:

I had below listed two dependencies in my module-level build.gradle file:

 

implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.0.2'

implementation 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:27.0.2'

And the Studio had warned me as below (in addition to dex merging problem):

All com.android.support libraries must use the exact same version specification (mixing versions can lead to runtime crashes). Found versions 27.0.2, 21.0.3. Examples include com.android.support:animated-vector-drawable:27.0.2 and com.android.support:support-v4:21.0.3

So I explicitly determined a version of com.android.support:support-v4 and my both the problems (the warning and a one which was related to dex merging) solved:

implementation 'com.android.support:support-v4:27.0.2'  // Just added this line (according to above warning message)

implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.0.2'

implementation 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:27.0.2'

And it fixed my issues.

OR

I also had a same problem when I tried to update from com.google.android.gms:play-services:11.2.2 to com.google.android.gms:play-services:11.4.0. Below method solved it for me:

1.      clean

2.      rebuild

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