Android: Unable to build APK. More than one file was found with OS independent path 'META-INF/android.arch.lifecycle_runtime.version'

Question

All of a sudden, I am getting this error while building APK

Error:Execution failed for task \':app:transformResourcesWithMergeJavaResForDevDebug\'.
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Answer 1

You can try using pickFirst something like this:

packagingOptions {
   // this is the lazy option.
   //pickFirst  'META-INF/*'
   pickFirst   'META-INF/android.arch.lifecycle_runtime.version'
}