Android : Apache POI duplicate entry: org/apache/xmlbeans/xml/stream/Location.class error

Question

Hi I am getting following error while running my android project :

Error:Execution failed for task \':app:transformClassesWithJarMergingForDebug\'.
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Answer 1

There are a few projects available which try to work around a number of issues when using POI on Android.

Please take a look at the sample project https://github.com/centic9/poi-on-android/ which allows to build a single jar-file for POI on Android. It removes the duplicates and also fixes a few other issues with prohibited package names and others.

Another project in that area is https://github.com/andruhon/android5xlsx, however it only supports an older version of POI currently.