Large number of errors during Gradle build after upgrading to Android Studio 2.0

Question

Recently, I upgraded Android Studio from version 1.5 to 2.0 but since then I observe that the number of errors and warnings has increased. Most of the errors do not make sen

Answer 1

I had pretty much the same messages after integrating SimpleXML retrofit2 converter in my project. I had to exclude some libraries that were already bundled with Android to make it build properly.

Like so:

compile ("com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-simplexml:2.0.2") {
exclude group: 'xpp3', module: 'xpp3'
exclude group: 'stax', module: 'stax-api'
exclude group: 'stax', module: 'stax'}