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

After doing some other reading I found out there are issues with using poi library in android, see link below :

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59268#c0

Project at https://github.com/andruhon/android5xlsx has reduced library versions for both poi.jar & poi-ooxml.jar, import these in your libs folder & include following code in your gradle :

compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')

The reason this works is the guy who has created this project has excluded the xmlbeans.jar from basic poi.jar with which android build has problem. Credit goes to the guy andruhon.

This workaround worked for me hence posting as answer