Android Gradle compiling commons-io creates duplicate in library tree

Question

I\'m trying to build and maintain an old application for work but I can\'t get past the build phase. In my app/build.gradle file I have

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Answer 1

There is an option to fix it on gradle dependency resolution level

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy.dependencySubstitution {
        substitute module('org.apache.commons:commons-io:1.3.2') with module('commons-io:commons-io:1.3.2')
    }
}

Reason of the conflict is that org.apache.commons:commons-io:1.3.2 was pushed by mistake https://stackoverflow.com/a/37421794/624706

You can see where dependency is coming from with

gradle :main:dependencyInsight --configuration compile --dependency commons-io