Android Studio - Gradle dependencies - How to Exclude `bolts` from `facebook`?

Question

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithJarMergingForDebug'.

com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: java.util.zip.ZipException: duplicate entry: bolts/AggregateException.class

That's how the error looks like. I know that bolts is used in 3 of my dependencies, com.facebook.fresco:fresco:0.10.0, com.parse:parse-android:1.13.1 and a jar ePOS2.jar.

I have tried multiple solutions, starting with

 compile('com.facebook.fresco:fresco:0.10.0') {
         exclude group: 'com.parse.bolts', module: 'bolts-android'
     }

But I still get the error. I have also tried to exclude some parts from com.parse:parse-android1.13.1 as shown in this post but then I get the missing classes error then.

I also enabled multidex as shown in this post but the error still occurs.

I tried to exclude com/parse/bolts/AggregateException.class as shown in this post, still the error occurs.

The strangest is that if I enable InstantRun I can run the app but crashes when it uses a certain class from the jar.

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: com.android.tools.fd.runtime.IncrementalClassLoader$DelegateClassLoader

So, I thought if is possible to exclude that certain class AggregateException.class either from jar or com.parse:parse-android:1.13.1?

EDIT

compile('com.facebook.fresco:fresco:0.10.0') { exclude module: 'bolts-android' }

OR

compile('com.facebook.fresco:fresco:0.10.0') { exclude group: 'com.parse.bolts', module: 'bolts-android' }

I have tried to exclude bolts from com.facebook.fresco:fresco:0.10.0 but whatever I do they still appear:

    +--- com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1                                  
+--- com.android.support:design:23.3.0
|    +--- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.3.0
|    |    +--- com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:23.3.0
|    |    |    \--- com.android.support:support-v4:23.3.0
|    |    |         \--- com.android.support:support-annotations:23.3.0
|    |    +--- com.android.support:animated-vector-drawable:23.3.0
|    |    |    \--- com.android.support:support-vector-drawable:23.3.0 (*)
|    |    \--- com.android.support:support-v4:23.3.0 (*)
|    +--- com.android.support:support-v4:23.3.0 (*)
|    \--- com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.3.0
|         +--- com.android.support:support-v4:23.3.0 (*)
|         \--- com.android.support:support-annotations:23.3.0
+--- com.makeramen:roundedimageview:2.2.1
+--- com.facebook.fresco:fresco:0.10.0
|    +--- com.facebook.fresco:drawee:0.10.0
|    |    +--- com.android.support:support-v4:23.1.1 -> 23.3.0 (*)
|    |    \--- com.facebook.fresco:fbcore:0.10.0
|    +--- com.facebook.fresco:fbcore:0.10.0
|    \--- com.facebook.fresco:imagepipeline:0.10.0
|         +--- com.android.support:support-v4:23.1.1 -> 23.3.0 (*)
|         +--- com.nineoldandroids:library:2.4.0
|         +--- com.facebook.fresco:fbcore:0.10.0
|         +--- com.facebook.fresco:imagepipeline-base:0.10.0
|         |    +--- com.android.support:support-v4:23.1.1 -> 23.3.0 (*)
|         |    +--- com.nineoldandroids:library:2.4.0
|         |    +--- com.facebook.fresco:fbcore:0.10.0
|         |    \--- com.parse.bolts:bolts-android:1.1.4 !!! HERE
|         \--- com.parse.bolts:bolts-android:1.1.4  !!! HERE
+--- com.facebook.fresco:imagepipeline-okhttp:0.7.0
|    +--- com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.3.0
|    |    \--- com.squareup.okio:okio:1.3.0
|    +--- com.facebook.fresco:imagepipeline:0.7.0 -> 0.10.0 (*)
|    \--- com.facebook.fresco:fbcore:0.7.0 -> 0.10.0
+--- com.parse:parse-android:1.13.1
|    \--- com.parse.bolts:bolts-tasks:1.4.0
\--- uk.co.chrisjenx:calligraphy:2.2.0
     \--- com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1 -> 23.3.0 (*)

Answer 1

The duplicate entry error ususally originates from the packager trying to package multiple different versions of the same class.

It seems that you've only excluded a specific part of the bolts library. This causes your build to mix 2 different version of the remaining parts of the library, which probably do still have some overlapping classes.

In my project I've excluded the whole library from every module, and then forced a unified bolts version to rule them all.

In my gradle build I've exluded bolts from all modules dependant on bolts, like this:

compile('com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.14.1') {
    exclude group: 'com.parse.bolts'
}

And then forced all modules to use a the latest bolts:

compile 'com.parse.bolts:bolts-android:1.+'