Program type already present: BuildConfig

Question

I\'m trying to generate a release build but im not able because of mutidex issues my project has all the multidex enabled and dependencies added

The error i\'m rece

Answer 1

Error: Program type already present: somemodule/BuildConfig

Cause

In my case I had a (hidden) circular dependency which Android Studio did not find:

1. testutils/build.gradle uses implementation project(':somemodule')

2. somemodule/build.gradle had `androidTestImplementation project(":testutils")

Solution

• in my case the second dependency was not neccessary so I removed it