Why Android Studio is forcing to use Androidx from Android support library?

Question

Working on a React Native project but out of sudden it stopped working & started giving an error:

Manifest merger failed : Attribute application@appCompo         


        

Answer 1

According from Dan Lew

The support library artifacts are being deprecated and all future development is going into AndroidX, so there's no avoiding this migration. Hopefully, though, these tips will give you a clearer transition path.