Android: Unable to build APK. More than one file was found with OS independent path 'META-INF/android.arch.lifecycle_runtime.version'

Question

All of a sudden, I am getting this error while building APK

Error:Execution failed for task \':app:transformResourcesWithMergeJavaResForDevDebug\'.
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Answer 1

In my case, I've excluded only path 'META-INF/LICENSE' on yourProject/app/build.gradle inside android{} . Here it is

packagingOptions {
    exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
}

After it Clean Project and Rebuild Project.

If above case doesn't work for you then You can add this in yourProject/app/build.gradle inside android{}

packagingOptions {
    exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
    exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
    exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
    exclude 'META-INF/license.txt'
    exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
    exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
    exclude 'META-INF/notice.txt'
    exclude 'META-INF/ASL2.0'
}

Answer 2

You can try using pickFirst something like this:

packagingOptions {
   // this is the lazy option.
   //pickFirst  'META-INF/*'
   pickFirst   'META-INF/android.arch.lifecycle_runtime.version'
}