Android Studio 3.1: mixing versions can lead to runtime crashes

Question

Have recently upgraded to Android Studio 3.1, and at the same time I\'m trying the Android P preview.

I\'m getting the following error on compiling:

Answer 1

Some dependency — perhaps playLicensing — has a transitive dependency on at least support-media-compat, for version 26.1.0.

To work around this:

• Identify each Support Library artifact that shows up in "External Libraries" that is older than 28.0.0-alpha1. Based on the error, those older ones should all be 26.1.0, and it will be at least support-media-compat.

• For each of those, add your own implementation line to your dependencies, requesting that artifact, but for 28.0.0-alpha1. This will cause Gradle to use the newer artifact, which happens to be what you want.

• Hope that whatever is depending on those older artifacts will survive with the newer artifacts.

So, at minimum, you are adding:

implementation 'com.android.support:support-media-compat:28.0.0-alpha1'