Android duplicate class error when including Apache POI

Question

I\'ve got a problem with the apache poi excel api (xlsx). I\'m using android studio and I\'ve added the poi libs to the \"libs\" folders. This error is popping up for some r

Answer 1

The xmlbeans 2.6 JAR from Maven Central contains some duplicate class entries. The XMLBeans JIRA has an issue open for the problem. Until they publish a new JAR, I think I'm going to unzip the jar, which will overwrite the duplicates, then re-zip it up and put it in my libs dir for now.