error building after admob-plus installation

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Environment

AdMob Plus Environment Info: System: OS: Windows 10 CPU: (4) x64 Intel® Core™ i5-4200M CPU @ 2.50GHz Memory: 2.01 GB / 7.93 GB Binaries: npm: 5.6.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD IDEs: Android Studio: Version 3.2.0.0 AI-181.5540.7.32.5056338

cordova: 8.1.2 (cordova-lib@8.1.1) ionic: 4.3.1 cordova plugins: { “cordova-plugin-whitelist”: “1.3.3”, “cordova-plugin-statusbar”: “2.4.2”, “cordova-plugin-device”: “2.0.2”, “cordova-plugin-splashscreen”: “5.0.2”, “cordova-plugin-ionic-webview”: “^2.0.0”, “cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard”: “^2.0.5”, “cordova-plugin-advanced-http”: “^2.0.1”, “cordova-plugin-camera”: “^4.0.3”, “cordova-plugin-file”: “^6.0.1”, “cordova-plugin-file-transfer”: “^1.7.1”, “cordova-plugin-filepath”: “^1.4.2”, “com-badrit-base64”: “0.2.0”, “cordova-plugin-firebase”: “2.0.5”, “cordova-android-support-gradle-release”: “^1.4.5”, “cordova-plugin-inappbrowser”: “3.0.0”, “cordova-sqlite-storage”: “2.5.0”, “cordova-plugin-network-information”: “2.0.1”, “mx.ferreyra.callnumber”: “0.0.2”, “call-number”: “1.0.1”, “cordova-admob-plus”: “0.8.0” }

Steps to Reproduce

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1. everything works fine
2. installed plugin
3. ionic cordova build android

Expected Behavior

build successful…

Actual Behavior

:app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ‘:app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug’.

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveMergerException: Unable to merge dex

39 actionable tasks: 5 executed, 34 up-to-date

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• Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 10s cmd: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output: FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Execution failed for task ‘:app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug’.

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveMergerException: Unable to merge dex

Reproducible Demo

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[n-clark]

Try using cordova-plugin-enable-multidex

[ratson]

@chromotoxin Good to hear that 😄