gradle sync problem, multidexing issue

Hi there. “theartofdev.edmodo:android-image-cropper:2.6.0” this is the version that i am using before android update to 3.1, and all was working fine. Since the update i had a multidex problem. (* What went wrong: Execution failed for task ‘:app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug’.

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.android.builder.dexing.DexArchiveMergerException: Unable to merge dex.)
i managed to trace the problem back to the image cropper

com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.0.2 gives me multiple errors if i have cropper set to2.6.0, if i set to 2.6.+ , i cannot sync gradle and problem with appcompact persists. if i comment out my cropper and comment out all related code in the project, my project builds fine and i can run program on device. not to sure if i am explaining the problem correctly.

this is my Gradle file. `android { compileSdkVersion 27 defaultConfig { applicationId “com.mymochi.magicmochi” minSdkVersion 16 targetSdkVersion 27 versionCode 1 versionName “1.0” testInstrumentationRunner “android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner” } buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled false proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile(‘proguard-android.txt’), ‘proguard-rules.pro’ } } }

dependencies { implementation fileTree(dir: ‘libs’, include: [‘*.jar’]) implementation ‘com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.0.2’ implementation ‘com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2’

implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:11.8.0'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:11.8.0'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-storage:11.8.0'
// FirebaseUI for Firebase Realtime Database
implementation 'com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-database:3.2.1'

// FirebaseUI for Cloud Firestore implementation ‘com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-firestore:3.2.1’

// FirebaseUI for Firebase Auth implementation ‘com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-auth:3.2.1’ implementation ‘com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:11.8.0’ implementation ‘com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:11.8.0’ // FirebaseUI for Cloud Storage implementation ‘com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-storage:3.2.1’ testImplementation ‘junit:junit:4.12’ androidTestImplementation ‘com.android.support.test🏃1.0.1’ androidTestImplementation ‘com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.0.1’

//Universal image loader
compile 'com.nostra13.universalimageloader:universal-image-loader:1.9.5'

compile 'com.theartofdev.edmodo:android-image-cropper:2.6.0'
//Circle ImageView
compile 'de.hdodenhof:circleimageview:2.1.0'
compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.7.2'


compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:27.0.2'
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:27.0.2'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:27.0.2'
compile 'com.github.ittianyu:BottomNavigationViewEx:1.2.4'
compile "com.android.support:design:27.0.2"
compile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:27.0.2'

} apply plugin: ‘com.google.gms.google-services’`

[Hartie95]

For me the easiest way to get it work was excluding the support libs from image-cropper, since I already include the libraries used by image cropper in my app:

    implementation ('com.theartofdev.edmodo:android-image-cropper:2.6.0'){

        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: '*'

    }

But only #496 will fix it completly

[Eltonio099]

use this one ‘com.theartofdev.edmodo:android-image-cropper:2.5.+’