Multiple dex files define Landroid/support/v4/accessibilityservice/AccessibilityServiceInfoCompat

Question

If I run gradle assembleDebug from the command line, I am suddenly getting this error:

UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION:
com.android.dx.util.DexEx         


        

Answer 1

I've had the same issue. In my project, I had the following dependencies :

• appcompat-v7
• android-support-v13

For legacy reasons, the appcompat was fetched from the Google Maven repo, whereas the android-support was a local .jar.

When I figured out this, and replaced this local reference with a maven reference, it just solved my build issue.

Here's the diff of my app/build.gradle :