Proguard warnings “can't write resource [META-INF/MANIFEST.MF] (Duplicate zip entry)”

Question

I\'m using IntelliJ and running Proguard in debug mode but I can\'t seem to get rid of warnings such as:

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Answer 1

The best solution I found was to copy the -obfuscate target from /tools/ant/build.xml into your project's custom_rules.xml. Then the only block that needs to be changed is:

The only added bit is (!META-INF/MANIFEST.MF). This will exclude all the manifest files, which won't be copied in to the final APK anyway.