Error: more than one library with package name com.google.android.gms.license

android google-play-services ionic3
Andika Ristian Nugraha picture Andika Ristian Nugraha · Mar 21, 2018 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

When I try to run the command ionic cordova build android out error as title above. Then I try to remove one of the gms, when I build again the deleted it appears again. how to solve this?.

Here is my dependencies of my build.gradle :

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
    // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES START
    debugCompile(project(path: "CordovaLib", configuration: "debug"))
    releaseCompile(project(path: "CordovaLib", configuration: "release"))
    compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:+" // i remove this
    compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:+"
    compile "com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.+"
    // SUB-PROJECT DEPENDENCIES END
}

Answer

rpbaltazar picture rpbaltazar · Mar 21, 2018

I've faced this issue quite recently and the problem for me was that for some reason the android project.properties file was generated with different versions for the com.google.android.gms, as such:

target=android-26
android.library.reference.1=CordovaLib
cordova.system.library.1=com.android.support:support-v4:24.1.1+
cordova.system.library.2=com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:+
cordova.system.library.3=com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:+
cordova.system.library.4=com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:11.+

This makes the library.2 and library.3 require one version while the library.4 requires a more specific version, thus causing the duplicate library reference during compiling.

While I don't think this should be the final solution, adding the specific library worked for me. As such:

target=android-26
android.library.reference.1=CordovaLib
cordova.system.library.1=com.android.support:support-v4:24.1.1+
cordova.system.library.2=com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:11.+
cordova.system.library.3=com.google.android.gms:play-services-identity:11.+
cordova.system.library.4=com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:11.+

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