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Same problem here.
Gradle: Execution failed for task ':Probe:packageTest'.
> Duplicate files copied in APK about.html
        File 1: /Users/xxxxx/.gradle/caches/artifacts-26/filestore/org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server/9.0.3.v20130506/jar/20ac6a58af5bb2d3287376fcf2f548c218e8c7e9/jetty-server-9.0.3.v20130506.jar
        File 2: /Users/xxxxx/.gradle/caches/artifacts-26/filestore/org.eclipse.jetty/jetty-server/9.0.3.v20130506/jar/20ac6a58af5bb2d3287376fcf2f548c218e8c7e9/jetty-server-9.0.3.v20130506.jar

Any update?

Well,
in the past I had found a solution that consists in executing this command on every duplicated jars

zip -d jetty-continuation-8.1.6.v20120903.jar about.html

The problem is into the about.html file which is present in all the jars. So we have to enter the .gradle caches directory and execute that command.

Is there any more elegant, and correct, solution for that? I mean, a param into gradle that tells to ignore duplicate files?

Thanks

Maven android plugin provide option: extractDuplicates to fix this issue:
https://code.google.com/p/maven-android-plugin/issues/detail?id=123

But no same stuff in gradle plugin.

Just a little bit more details about the problem: http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/intercept_gradle_library_calls?page=1#reply_13332623

The gradle plugin's com.android.builder.internal.packaging.Packager class calls into com.android.ide.common.packaging.PackagingUtils.checkFileForPackaging().

That checkFileForPackaging() method compares the filename against a list of well-known unwanted files, including "overview.html" and "package.html".  Adding "about.html" to this list seems like a reasonable and straightforward fix, for now.

Ideally, an affordance for the user to inject a custom filter (the Zip filter in Packager is finalized and also private) from the build recipe would be even better.

Here's an xargs incantation to make the workaround a little bit easier in the meantime (tested with the BSD versions of find and xargs, not GNU):

cd .gradle/caches
find . -name \*jetty\*.jar -print0 | xargs -0 -t -n 1 -J POOP zip -d POOP about.html

Gradle 1.7 added the ability to customize duplicate file handling. We want to do the same thing.

For now though, excluding about.html sounds like a good, quick workaround. We'll do this.

FYI gradle does this: http://www.gradle.org/docs/1.7/release-notes#duplicate-file-handling-for-copy-and-archive-operations

0.7.0 will filter out about.html.

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Same problem with META-INF/LICENSE, in these two libs together:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.2.3'
    compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.2.3'
}

yeah, now that we stopped filtering out all META-INF/ file we have a lot more case of this conflicts.

I'm going to fix this tomorrow and push an update.

I have this:

> Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/LICENSE.txt
        File 1: /Users/admin/android/xyz/xyz-android-reloaded/lib/httpclient-4.2.5.jar
        File 2: /Users/admin/android/xyz/xyz-android-reloaded/lib/httpclient-4.2.5.jar

I have this
Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/LICENSE
        File 1: /Users/admin/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.google.inject/guice/3.0/28586dc97c525501329d9a242fc3402041e3572d/guice-3.0-no_aop.jar
        File 2: /Users/admin/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.google.inject/guice/3.0/28586dc97c525501329d9a242fc3402041e3572d/guice-3.0-no_aop.jar

Is there a temporary fix for this until we can get our hands on 0.7.1?

I have issue 36903763. Cant build my APK, could someone kind explain a bit more how I can make it work?

Quick and dirty work around (remove the files from the cached .jar archives which cause the conflicts):

For my installation the following patterns have been sufficient:

find ~/.gradle/caches/ -iname "*.jar" -exec zip -d '{}' 'META-INF/NOTICE*' \;
find ~/.gradle/caches/ -iname "*.jar" -exec zip -d '{}' 'META-INF/LICENSE*' \;

When the next gradle plugin is released you can delete the subfolders of ~/.gradle/caches in order to make Gradle load fresh ones.

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I finally went into libs of my Android project an issued:

find . -iname "httpclient-4.2.5.jar" -exec zip -d '{}' 'META-INF/*' \;

It's also in META-INFO/DEPENDENCIES*...

com.android.builder.packaging.DuplicateFileException: Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/DEPENDENCIES
        File 1: /Users/jelle/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.httpcomponents/httpmime/4.3.1/f7899276dddd01d8a42ecfe27e7031fcf9824422/httpmime-4.3.1.jar
        File 2: /Users/jelle/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.httpcomponents/httpmime/4.3.1/f7899276dddd01d8a42ecfe27e7031fcf9824422/httpmime-4.3.1.jar

Depending on the jar files in the cache there are all sorts of duplicates in the META-INF directory, and case variations in e.g. notice.txt not NOTICE.

A quick fix would very much be appreciated.

0.7.1 is out with the fix for this.

The DSL to exclude files is:

android {
    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
    }
}

You can add as many exclude statement as you want. The value is the archive path. No wildcard or glob support yet.

Thanks for the quick fix Xav! You guys are really rocking the releases. The new lint stuff is great.

Note that it's only for app project.

However I just realized that if you have a test app for a library, then you might run into the same issue. We'll add to 0.7.2 the ability to apply the packagingOptions to library projects.

problem with dagger compiler
Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/services/javax.annotation.processing.Processor File 1: C:\Users\Mantas.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\com.squareup.dagger\dagger-compiler\1.2.0\22633bb84433e03d345a83e7b0c08c66768be30\dagger-compiler-1.2.0.jar File 2: C:\Users\Mantas.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\com.squareup.dagger\dagger-compiler\1.2.0\22633bb84433e03d345a83e7b0c08c66768be30\dagger-compiler-1.2.0.jar

fix for dagger compiler problem
https://plus.google.com/+HugoVisser/posts/7Wr3FcdNVxR

Still the same problem:

Execution failed for task ':foodex-android:packageDebug'.
> Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/DEPENDENCIES
        File 1: /home/user/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.httpcomponents/httpcore/4.3/11393498b38e9695d0850cac26fde5613ae268b9/httpcore-4.3.jar
        File 2: /home/user/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.apache.httpcomponents/httpcore/4.3/11393498b38e9695d0850cac26fde5613ae268b9/httpcore-4.3.jar

package has volley (https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/volley) and facebook (https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk.git) in dependencies.

Also Android unit Tests are included into this project.

What is the expected date for the 0.7.2 release? I am working on a library project that depends on the httpmime library.

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the same happens in
OS Ubuntu 13.10
JRE 1.7
AS 0.4.2
gradle plugin 0.7.3
gradle 1.9
> Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/LICENSE
        File 1: /home/bazted/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core/2.2.3/1a0113da2cab5f4c216b4e5e7c1dbfaa67087e14/jackson-core-2.2.3.jar
        File 2: /home/bazted/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core/2.2.3/1a0113da2cab5f4c216b4e5e7c1dbfaa67087e14/jackson-core-2.2.3.jar

Please see comment 26 about how to fix this. You need to manually exclude the duplicate file from the packaging.

I'have the same issue using android tools 0.8.+ (it should be 0.8.3). I have also the problem that I can't exclude the file because there is the declaration of the MessageBodyReader of jersey (without it jeresey doesn't works). Here the error:

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':FlyWithFriends:packageDebug'.
> Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/services/javax.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyReader
        File 1: /Users/gcastaldi/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.sun.jersey/jersey-json/1.18/76204239e551ae47dbbf871a5649660661a053a0/jersey-json-1.18.jar
        File 2: /Users/gcastaldi/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.sun.jersey/jersey-json/1.18/76204239e551ae47dbbf871a5649660661a053a0/jersey-json-1.18.jar


And here my build.gradle:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        mavenLocal()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:0.8.+'
        classpath 'com.neenbedankt.gradle.plugins:android-apt:1.1'
    }
}


apply plugin: 'android'
apply plugin: 'android-apt'

def AndroidAnnotationsVersion = '3.0.1'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 19
    buildToolsVersion '19.0.1'

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 14
        targetSdkVersion 19
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }

    sourceSets {
        main {
            manifest.srcFile 'src/main/AndroidManifest.xml'
            java.srcDirs = ['src/main/java']
            resources.srcDirs = ['src/main/resources']
            res.srcDirs = ['src/main/res']
            assets.srcDirs = ['src/main/assets']
        }

        instrumentTest {
            java.srcDirs = ['src/instrumentTest/java']
        }
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            runProguard false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt'
        }
    }
    lintOptions {
        abortOnError false
    }
    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/notice.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/license.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/jersey-module-version'
        exclude 'META-INF/ASL2.0'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
//        exclude 'META-INF/services/javax.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyReader'
//        exclude 'META-INF/services/javax.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyWriter'
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:gridlayout-v7:19.0.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:+'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:19.0.0'
    apt "org.androidannotations:androidannotations:$AndroidAnnotationsVersion"
    compile "org.androidannotations:androidannotations-api:$AndroidAnnotationsVersion"
    compile project(':zFlightsLibs:flights')
    compile project(':zFlightsLibs:flightsBravofly')
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    instrumentTestCompile 'org.assertj:assertj-core:1.5.0'
}

apt {
    arguments {
        androidManifestFile variant.processResources.manifestFile
        resourcePackageName 'ch.exmachina.flywithfriends'
    }
}

I'm reopening this to track issues where you really want a version of the file. I started working on a fix.

Since 0.9.1 you can do the following:

android.packagingOptions {
    pickFirst 'META-INF/services/javax.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyReader'
}

Note that this will literally pick the first one. There's no way to choose. we intend to add more options in the future. I've filed Issue 36949180 to track this.

I have an error
Error:Execution failed for task ':sSD:packageDebug'.
> Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/LICENSE
        File 1: C:\Android\androidWorkspace\mtd\sSD\libs\jackson-all-1.9.11.jar
        File 2: C:\Android\androidWorkspace\mtd\sSD\libs\jackson-all-1.9.11.jar
I don't understand which file should I edit.

The stack over flow said The DSL to exclude files is:

android {
    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
    }
}

But I don't know which file to put that command.
What is DSL?


https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20673625/android-gradle-plugin-0-7-0-duplicate-files-during-packaging-of-apk

Please note that there has been an update on this in the Gradle releases:
http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system

put this in your build.gradle for the module where the error is.

Does the packagingOptions DSL still work?  I am noticing that even in spite of generating APK's with the packagingOptions { exclude 'AndroidManifest.xml' }, the file is still being included and these errors are showing up on multi-project builds.

Part of me is suspicious that these DSL statements no longer apply in the new Gradles...at least in 0.10+ and above.  

I'm having the same problems as discribed in #43 with the packagingOptions. Is there any other solution to get around this?

Turns out not to be an issue for me.  I solved the problem by verifying that the android plugin is only declared once in build.gradle (apply plugin: 'android').  Your other libraries need to be declared as android-library (apply plugin: 'android-library').  If you have two it's likely there will be conflicts.

Same problem with #43, I've double checked the new library that I've imported which causes the problem, and it has android-library declared properly. So #45's solution doesn't seem to be the right solution at all or a very specific environment solution.

"exclude" and "pickFirst" on lib/armeabi/lib123.so are no effect.

I am still having this issue, nearly 2 years later. here is my build.gradle.

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 21
    buildToolsVersion "21.1.2"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.running.mattboyle.runnertoolbox"
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 21
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt'
        }
    }

    packagingOptions {
        pickFirst 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'

    }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:21.0.3'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:+'
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])


}

I think this might be a bug related to predexing. We ran into multiple
issues with both this error and duplicate class definitions until we turned
off predexing altogether (our Maven build worked just fine with the same
dependency setup)

Can you turn it off and see if the problem persists?

Got the same error in Android Studio v1.1.0

Adding

    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/license.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/notice.txt'
    }

To gradle file fixed it.

same issues again
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30364950/errorduplicate-files-during-packaging-of-apk-android-studio-error?noredirect=1#comment48821207_30364950

Happened today: Android Studio 1.2.1.1 under Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS. Same fix as #51.

PackagingOptions exclude stopped functioning in 2.1.3

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Same issue: Using Gradle 2.2.2

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformResourcesWithMergeJavaResForDebug'.
> com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: com.android.builder.packaging.DuplicateFileException: Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/jersey-module-version
        File1: /Users/stuff/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.sun.jersey/jersey-client/1.13/ec38c57a78940bf5f8f5971307ca89406849647/jersey-client-1.13.jar
        File2: /Users/stuff/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.sun.jersey/jersey-core/1.13/4326a56dc6b2d67b7313905c353e1af225bb164f/jersey-core-1.13.jar

Host OS: windows 7

When I add dependency: jetty, then i cant build android project with gradle.

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:packageDebug'.
> Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/LICENSE
        File 1: C:\Users\ARJUN\.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\com.fasterxml.jackson.core\jackson-core\2.2.2\d20be6a5ddd6f8cfd36ebf6dea329873a1c41f1b\jackson-core-2.2.2.jar
        File 2: C:\Users\ARJUN\.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\com.fasterxml.jackson.core\jackson-annotations\2.2.2\285cb9c666f0f0f3dd8a1be04e1f457eb7b15113\jackson-annotations-2.2.2.jar