commons-logging defines classes that conflict with classes now provided by Android after Android Studio Update

Question

I have updated Android Studio to version 3 and now seems unable to compile my project previously compiled without errors.

The error message is the follow

Answer 1

If you want to continue with async-http then add below following code only in app/build.gradle

configurations {
    all {
        exclude module: 'commons-logging'
    }
}