Execution failed for task ':app:dexDebug'.Not sure may be a dependency issue between httpclient and httpmime

Question

In Android Studio I am getting the following errors:- Execution failed for task ':app:dexDebug'.

:app:compileDebugJava UP-TO-DATE :app:preDexDebug :app:dexDebug UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION: com.android.dex.DexException: Multiple dex files define Landroid/support/annotation/AnimRes; at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.readSortableTypes(DexMerger.java:596) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.getSortedTypes(DexMerger.java:554) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeClassDefs(DexMerger.java:535) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeDexes(DexMerger.java:171) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.merge(DexMerger.java:189) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.mergeLibraryDexBuffers(Main.java:454) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:303) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:246) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:215) at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:106)

FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:dexDebug'.

com.android.ide.common.internal.LoggedErrorException: Failed to run command: C:\Users\Priyatosh\AppData\Local\Android\sdk\build-tools\21.1.2\dx.bat --dex --no-optimize --output C:\Users\Priyatosh\Desktop\Camerafileupload27\app\build\intermediates\dex\debug --input-list=C:\Users\Priyatosh\Desktop\Camerafileupload27\app\build\intermediates\tmp\dex\debug\inputList.txt Error Code: 2 Output: UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION: com.android.dex.DexException: Multiple dex files define Landroid/support/annotation/AnimRes; at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.readSortableTypes(DexMerger.java:596) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.getSortedTypes(DexMerger.java:554) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeClassDefs(DexMerger.java:535) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeDexes(DexMerger.java:171) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.merge(DexMerger.java:189) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.mergeLibraryDexBuffers(Main.java:454) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:303) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:246) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:215) at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:106)

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BUILD FAILED

My build.gradle file:-

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 21
    buildToolsVersion "21.1.2"

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "info.androidhive.camerafileupload"
        minSdkVersion 15
        targetSdkVersion 21
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}



    dependencies {
        compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
        compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.3'
    //compile files('libs/httpclient-4.3.6.jar')
    //compile files('libs/android-support-v4.jar')
    //compile files('libs/httpcore-4.3.3.jar')
    //compile files('libs/httpmime-4.3.6.jar')
    //compile "org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime:4.3.6"

    }

Can anybody suggest me how to solve it.... ?

gio gio · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-27T14:49:26

Your build.gradle contains compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.3' this library depends on on the v4 Support Library. So it will be added by gradle. Also you have android-support-v4.jar at your libs folder and line compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']), as result AS will try to build it with 2 instances of same library.

Sulution is to remove android-support-v4.jar from libs folder and rebuild project.

Update:

Add into build.gradle next block

android{
....
packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
    }
}

Execution failed for task ':app:dexDebug'.Not sure may be a dependency issue between httpclient and httpmime

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