After upgraded to androidX Zip file '...' already contains entry 'AndroidManifest.xml', cannot overwrite Error while build

Question

I'm new in Android development and I've been recently assigned to an android project, which was not updated for more than a year. I got the below error when I try to build.

This project was made before android X and I have just migrated to the android X with android studio. Gradle version was 3.8 and now it is 7.0. When the migration and upgrade finished, I started to encounter this problem while building

Please guide me on how I should fix it.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.**

What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:packageDebug'. A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.tasks.PackageAndroidArtifact$IncrementalSplitterRunnable Zip file 'C:\Users...\app\build\outputs\apk\debug\app-debug.apk' already contains entry 'AndroidManifest.xml', cannot overwrite

Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights. Get more help at https://help.gradle.org Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 8.0. Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings. See https://docs.gradle.org/7.0.2/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings BUILD FAILED in 3s

Here my gradle files:

build.gradle(Module:MyApp.app)

    apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
    apply plugin: 'com.google.firebase.crashlytics'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 31
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.myapp.app"
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 31
        versionCode 108
        versionName "3.7"
        testInstrumentationRunner 'androidx.test.runner.AndroidJsUnitRunner'
        multiDexEnabled true
    }
    allprojects {
        repositories {
            jcenter()
            google()
        }
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
    namespace 'com.myapp.app'
}

dependencies {
implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
implementation('androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.0', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('androidx.cardview:cardview:1.0.0', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:1.0.0', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('com.google.android:flexbox:1.0.0', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.71828', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.3.0', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.4.1', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor:3.4.1', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.15', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-wallet:16.0.1'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:16.0.0'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:16.0.1'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:17.0.0'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-basement:16.1.0'
implementation('io.card:android-sdk:5.5.1', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('com.facebook.android:audience-network-sdk:5.0.0', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation ('androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3',{
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation ('androidx.legacy:legacy-support-v4:1.0.0',{
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})

implementation platform('com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:29.0.3')

implementation ('com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics',{
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation ('com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics',{
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})

implementation ('com.google.firebase:firebase-core',{
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
implementation('androidx.work:work-runtime:2.7.1', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})


implementation ('com.facebook.android:facebook-login:12.2.0',{
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.1'
androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.1.0'

implementation('androidx.gridlayout:gridlayout:1.0.0', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})

implementation ('androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.0',{
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})
/* implementation('com.smartyads:ad-container:0.4.9', {
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
    transitive = true
})*/
implementation ('com.inmobi.monetization:inmobi-ads:8.1.3',{
    exclude group: 'com.google.android.gms'
})

}

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

build.gradle(Project:MyApp)

// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
    
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.4'
        

        // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
        // in the individual module build.gradle files
        classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.10'
        classpath 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics-gradle:2.8.1'
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
        mavenCentral()
        mavenLocal()
        flatDir {
            dirs '../libs'
        }
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
        maven { url "https://s3.amazonaws.com/moat-sdk-builds" }
        maven { url "https://dl.bintray.com/smartyads/maven/" }
        maven {
            url 'https://maven.google.com/'
        }
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

Answer 1

Depending on the Android Studio version and Gradle plugin version you are using, the culprit could be the new packaging tool: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/gradle-plugin#zipflinger

The easiest way to fall back to using the older tool would be to add this line in the gradle.properties file:

android.useNewApkCreator=false

Answer 2

Verify that you do not have an extra AndroidManifest.xml in your project that is not part of a source set. When I fixed this in an old project recently, I found there was another AndroidManifest.xml in the resources/ directory.