Problem "Entry name 'META-INF...' collide - Android

Question

I have added some things to my mobile application, such as adds or animation-lists. The thing is that I could generate APKs perfectly some days ago and, since the moment y added those things, Android Studio does not let me generate them. It has the following error.

Entry name 'META-INF/androidx.vectordrawable_vectordrawable.version' collided

Or these other ones:

Execution failed for task ':app:packageDebug'. A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade Entry name 'META-INF/androidx.vectordrawable_vectordrawable.version' collided

I have no idea what could get wrong. Thank you so much.

Solution 1

I had the similar problem with "META-INF/androidx.gridlayout_gridlayout.version' collided". It took my 4 hours and finally i resolved it. Method which worked for me i am not sure that will for you too but you can try. go to Menu Build > Rebuild Project thats it.

Solution 2

In my case in the output directory there has already been a file called app-debug.apk and for whatever reason the android sdk could not overwrite it. The apk has been generated as soon as I deleted or renamed the old version.

Solution 3

Use in the below steps will working perfectly.

Menu -> Build -> Clean project

that's all. Enjoy your coding.

Solution 4

• Click on Build -> Clean Project
• Click on File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart

Still you have the same error then delete debug and release folder from the app folder then restart the IDE

Solution 5

Delete the previous APK you build and try again. it helps me to solve this issue.

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Comments

[Nicolas]

Does this answer your question? Android Studio 0.4 Duplicate files copied in APK META-INF/LICENSE.txt Try to use exclude "META-INF/androidx.vectordrawable**"

[Malay M]

Clear the build using Menu -> Build -> Clean project, and it worked.

[King Of The Jungle]

For some weird reason I had to 'Clean Project' twice before it worked.

[Ornelio Chauque]

Menu -> Build -> Clean project, worked for me. Thanks

[Samuel T. Chou]

Though I feel this will work in most situation, this did not really solve mine. @tmt 's answer worked: remove/rename the already-generated apk (and json).

[Jose R]

Thanks for this answer!! this solved my problem too.

[CoolMind]

Build > Rebuild Project helped me with Entry name 'META-INF/androidx.preference_preference.version' collided error.

[mikebld]

this should be marked as the answer, brilliant, thank you!

[GSD.Aaz]

See similar error and possible solutions

[GSD.Aaz]

Also you can try use something like that at your build.gradle(:app) : ``` applicationVariants.all { variant -> variant.outputs.all { outputFileName = "../../(" + System.currentTimeMillis() + ")" + outputFileName } } ```