How to manage different support library versions for 3rd party deps with gradle?

Question

I have a bunch of third party libs that I include in my base application. I cannot control the support library those 3rd party modules include. This makes it hard to have t

Answer 1

You need to specify dependency, with your desired version, that is causing the conflict before the libs that need it. If you do that these lib will use your specified dependency version.

Example with libs (from warning message) from your screenshot

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:26.0.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-compat:26.0.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:animated-vector-drawable:26.0.0'
    compile 'com.test:lib1:1.0' // depends on support-v13:25.0.0
    compile 'com.test:lib2:1.0' // depends on support-v13:25.2.0
    compile 'com.test:lib3:1.0' // depends on support-v13:25.4.0
    compile 'com.test:lib4:1.0' // depends on support-v13:26.0.0
}

Continue adding dependencies (that show up in the warning from your screenshot) until there is no longer any warning message about different library versions.