I am having problems with the library included in my project: At first it was a conflicting issue that I resolved by excluding support-v4 , which is a public module.
The problem is that one of these lbsLib-release seems to have been built with a simple .jar file inside the root project before the developer build.
By running ./gradlew app:dependencies , I confirmed that the dependency is not listed in the build graph.
And I found this support-v4 built into classes.jar located at: app/build/intermedites/exploded-aar/MyQaaAndroid/lbsLib-release/unspecified/classes.jar/ , as you can see in the image below:

I cannot rebuild the project myself because it is not an open source library, so there are two problems:
If I add compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:18.0.+' to build.gradle , a multiple dex file error is build.gradle during build, so the library is referenced twice.
UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION: com.android.dex.DexException: Multiple dex files define Landroid/support/v4/app/BackStackState; at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.readSortableTypes(DexMerger.java:596) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.getSortedTypes(DexMerger.java:554) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeClassDefs(DexMerger.java:535) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeDexes(DexMerger.java:171) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.merge(DexMerger.java:189) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.mergeLibraryDexBuffers(Main.java:454) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:303) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:246) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:215) at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:106)
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If I remove all libraries that require support-v4 , it will produce the missing dependency errors at runtime.
So, I would like to know whether it is possible to exclude this .jar file from the assembly or make other libs dependent on lbsLib-release embedded support-v4 .jar .
compile (project(':lbsLib-release')) { exclude module: 'support-v4' } compile ('com.sothree.slidinguppanel:library:2.0.4'){ exclude module: 'support-v4' } compile('com.google.android.gms:play-services:6.5.87') { exclude module: 'support-v4' }
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