I currently have something like this in the build.gradle file.
dependencies { compile \'com.android.support:support-v4:13.0.+\' compile (\'com.xxx:xx
Yes, you can exclude transitive dependencies:
In your case this would be:
dependencies { compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:13.0.+' compile ("com.xxx:xxx-commons:1.+") { exclude group: 'junit', module: 'junit' } }
or
configurations { all*.exclude group: 'junit', module: 'junit' }