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

I removed commons-logging as suggested above, of course it crashed on some phone with Fatal Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Lorg/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory;. How can Android claim the commons-logging is conflicting with Android API when the Android API doesn't contain any of those classes?!? There is no org.apache.commons.logging at https://developer.android.com/reference/packages :facepalm:

I've added back implementation 'commons-logging:commons-logging:1.0.4' to the build.gradle - Android Studio underlines it with red but gradle compiles happily. :facepalm:

Android :triple_facepalm: