multiple dex files define landroid/support/annotation/AnimRes

The moment I added the android support annotations to my dependencies

compile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:20.0.0'

I got this error:

Error Code: 2 Output: UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION: com.android.dex.DexException: Multiple dex files define Landroid/support/annotation/AnimRes; at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.readSortableTypes(DexMerger.java:594) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.getSortedTypes(DexMerger.java:552) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeClassDefs(DexMerger.java:533) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeDexes(DexMerger.java:170) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.merge(DexMerger.java:188) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.mergeLibraryDexBuffers(Main.java:439) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:287) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:230) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:199) at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:103)

build.gradle

android {
    compileSdkVersion 19
    buildToolsVersion '20.0.0'

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 10
        targetSdkVersion 19
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:19.0.0'
    compile 'com.crashlytics.android:crashlytics:1.+'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-annotations:20.0.0'
}

Anybody else experienced this issue? I have tried the solutions from here.

The problem is that android-support-annotations.jar used to be a separate library containing the android annotations, but for some reason these annotations are already included in recent versions of the android-support-v4.jar file.

Deleting the annotations jar solved the issue.

Build->clean Project ,and it worked

I deleted the android-support-v4.jar and it worked.

If this is cordova / ionic project this worked for me

add these line to build.gradle under platforms/android after line number 22 i.e after apply plugin: 'android'

configurations {
   all*.exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-v4'
}

Solved this exact issue in a Cordova project that used the facebook plugin. I was able to successfully build by commenting out this line from platforms\android\project.properties, as shown:

# cordova.system.library.1=com.android.support:support-v4:+

And by commenting out this line from platforms\android\build.gradle, as shown:

// compile "com.android.support:support-v4:+"

Then doing the build. The problem started when I installed (katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications) which added these lines, but it created a conflict since the library it was adding to the build was already part of the facebook plugin build.

multiple dex files define landroid/support/annotation/AnimRes

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