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 receiving is :

Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithMultidexlistForRelease

Caused by: com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: Error while generating the main dex list.

and aslo:

Caused by: com.android.tools.r8.errors.CompilationError: Program type already present: com.myapp.BuildConfig

Answer 1

You are getting this error because you a have library module which has the same package name as the app module.

The solution would be to change package name of your library module. You can follow the accepted answer in this SO which describes how to change the package name in android studio.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

In my case It was happening when I try to run older project on new installed Android studio The problem solved by running Build->Clean Project

Answer 4

You can see this response https://stackoverflow.com/a/26531074/4097495 in my case solve with this suggestion. my app and my module have same package name