Android Gradle plugin 0.7.0: “duplicate files during packaging of APK”

Question

Using Android Gradle plugin 0.7.0 with the following build.gradle:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }

    dependenci         


        

Answer 1

The problem is that the META-INF folder won't get filtered so multiple entries of NOTICE or LICENSE cause duplicates when building and it is tryed to copy them together.

Dirty Quick Fix:

Open the .jar file in your .gradle/caches/... folder (with a zip compatible tool) and remove or rename the files in the META-INF folder that cause the error (usally NOTICE or LICENSE). (I know thats also in the OP, but for me it was not really clear until I read the google forum)

EDIT:

This was fixed in 0.7.1. Just add the confilcting files to exclude.

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