More than one file was found with OS independent path 'META-INF/proguard/androidx-annotations.pro'

Question

i am trying android WorkManager, The code is throwing error \"More than one file was found with OS independent path \'META-INF/proguard/androidx-annotations.pro

Answer 1

As a beginner, I had this issue while using a pre-made project for in some tutorial, and above solution didn't work for me.

So in case someone face same problem.

I had to upgrade gradle version in build.gradle file for project:

buildscript {

    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.6.1'        
    }
}
...

Then I had to upgrade gradle wrapper in gradle-wrapper.properties:

#Wed Sep 26 11:30:41 IST 2018
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists

# Delete this
#distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip

# Add this
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.4-all.zip

Then, I set useAndroidX to true in gradle.properties file:

android.useAndroidX=true

That's it. I hope it helps.