More than one file was found with OS independent path 'error_prone/Annotations.gwt.xml

[mrcool17]

More than one file was found with OS independent path 'error_prone/Annotations.gwt.xml

[IanGClifton]

Can you clarify which project you're building? Sounds like it may be similar to googlesamples/androidtv-sample-inputs#49, but I don't see the same problem building any of the projects with Android Studio 4.1

[changxiangzhong]

This is a cool Japanese guy. His solution works for me. Please refer to this link.

Here's the patch

chang@zbook:~/git-root/androidtv-sample-inputs$ git diff
diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index 4651b79..f380054 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ android {
             proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.txt'
         }
     }
+
+    packagingOptions {
+        exclude 'error_prone/Annotations.gwt.xml'
+        exclude 'third_party/java_src/error_prone/project/annotations/Annotations.gwt.xml'
+        exclude 'third_party/java_src/error_prone/project/annotations/Google_internal.gwt.xml'
+        exclude 'jsr305_annotations/Jsr305_annotations.gwt.xml'
+    }
 }
 
 ext {