The given artifact contains a string literal with a package reference 'android.support.v4.content' that cannot be safely rewritten. for androidx

Question

I upgraded my android studio to 3.4 canary and now I cannot successfully build anymore due to the following error:

The given artifact contains          


        

Answer 1

For androidx simply upgrade your dependencies to version '10.0.0'

dependencies {
implementation 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:10.0.0'
annotationProcessor 'com.jakewharton:butterknife-compiler:10.0.0'
}

Look for documentation here

Answer 2

Using the latest version of Butterknife resolved the issue. Use >= 9.0.0-rc2 (Butterknife Version) to support androidX. For the latest release check the link - https://github.com/JakeWharton/butterknife/releases

Answer 3

Change

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">

to

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.DarkActionBar">

or other Material Themes. Got this error after starting New Project with "No Activity" in Android Studio 4.0.1

Answer 4

Which version if Butterknife you use? Latest version 9.0.0-rc2 supports androidx.

UPD: There is closed issue on butterknife's github repo. Temporary workaround

Add android.jetifier.blacklist=butterknife-compiler to your gradle.properties file.

Answer 5

update butterknife + invalidate cache and restart + sync gradle if buterknife not used just clear cache and restart

Answer 6

My project doesn't use butterknife, but I had the same error "The given artifact contains a string literal with a package reference 'android.support.v4.widget' that cannot be safely rewritten. Libraries using reflection such as annotation processors need to be updated manually to add support for androidx " This what I did to solve it: Update your parceler version

gradle build file

Replace:

annotationProcessor 'org.parceler:parceler:1.1.6'
implementation 'org.parceler:parceler-api:1.1.6'

With:

  annotationProcessor 'org.parceler:parceler:1.1.13'
  implementation 'org.parceler:parceler-api:1.1.13'