React Native: Execution failed for task ':app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug'

Question

I\'ve tried gradlew clean and every other solution available here and on GitHub but the error doesn\'t match and solution doesn\'t work

Error on cmd A

Answer 1

In the file (/android/app/build.gradle), amend the code with the following lines:

android {
    ...
   packagingOptions {
       pickFirst '**/libjsc.so'
   }
}

Reference: https://github.com/react-native-community/jsc-android-buildscripts/issues/80