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Adding Facebook SDK to android studio project using Gradle. Manifest merger failed error coming. Multiple support libraries conflict. What to do?

My app.gradle file contains :-
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
})
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.+'
compile 'com.android.support:design:26.+'
compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
compile 'com.android.volley:volley:1.0.0'
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.1'
compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.0.0'
compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:[4,5)'
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
}
Gradle console error output
What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugManifest'.
Manifest merger failed : Attribute meta-data#android.support.VERSION#value value=(26.0.0-alpha1) from [com.android.support:design:26.0.0-alpha1] AndroidManifest.xml:27:9-38
is also present at [com.android.support:cardview-v7:25.3.1] AndroidManifest.xml:24:9-31 value=(25.3.1).
Suggestion: add 'tools:replace="android:value"' to element at AndroidManifest.xml:25:5-27:41 to override.

You have to use latest Facebook SDK.
You should use this.
compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.25.0'
Then clean and rebuild the project.
Hope it helps.

How to exclude a class from jar in Android Studio

I'm trying to exclude a class from jar, but it doesn't work.
Let me know hot to do it.
This is my code:
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1'
compile ('com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:8.3.0') {
exclude module: 'com.google.android.gms.iid/zzb'
}
compile 'org.xwalk:xwalk_core_library:14.43.343.17'
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.4'
compile 'commons-io:commons-io:2.4'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:10.2.1'
compile project(":adjust")
}
This is the error message:
Error:Execution failed for task ':app:packageAllReleaseClassesForMultiDex'.
> java.util.zip.ZipException: duplicate entry: com/google/android/gms/iid/zzb$zza$zza.class

In plain Gradle, what you are looking for can be achieved as:
dependencies {
compile('com.example.m:m:1.0') {
exclude group: 'org.unwanted', module: 'x
}
compile 'com.example.l:1.0'
}
This would exclude the module X from the dependencies of M, but will still bring it if you depend on L.

Gradle error after including facebook sdk

Immediately after adding the facebook-audience-network-sdk in my gradle file, I started getting errors, the first one I fixed my adding multiDexEnabled true, after that I keep getting this error
Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithJarMergingForDebug'.
com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: java.util.zip.ZipException: duplicate entry: com/google/android/gms/internal/zzqa.class
Here are my dependencies list in build.gradle
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1'
compile 'com.mcxiaoke.volley:library:1.0.17'
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.1.1'
compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.1'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:8.4.0'
compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.10.0'
compile 'com.facebook.android:audience-network-sdk:4.10.0'
compile 'joda-time:joda-time:2.7'
}
After running gradle with -q dependencies here is my screenshot, I think the problem is related to google play services libraries seeing the facebook.android:audience-network-sdk depends on analytics 7.8.0 while I have included the latest 8.4.0 already in my dependencies, I'm not sure.
How can i fix this?

I finally got rid of the error. So the problem was with the com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-8.1.0. You can see from the image it was 8.1.0 and other play dependencies were 8.4.0.
So these two ways worked. One was to change the dependency into
compile ('com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.10.0'){
exclude group:"com.google.android.gms"
}
But the issue with this is that, it could be a problem since in my other dependencies I didn't have play-services-ads:8.4.0'
So the way I solved this was just add a single line
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:8.4.0'
This way everything worked perfectly, because when gradle compiled it automatically replaced the 8.1.0 into the 8.4.0
Here is my final dependencies list that worked
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.1.1'
compile 'com.mcxiaoke.volley:library:1.0.17'
compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.1.1'
compile 'com.android.support:design:23.1.1'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:8.4.0'
compile 'com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.10.0'
compile 'com.facebook.android:audience-network-sdk:4.10.0'
compile 'joda-time:joda-time:2.7'
}

android studio jar import problems

I am a freshman in android development and want to use webservice by some jars.(The webservice has been written and publish).
Then I use Ksoap.jar and Jsoup.jar.
In android studio. I try to import them. It shows successful but I still cannot use the classes in the jars.
The build.gradle shows below:
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1'
compile 'com.android.support:design:23.0.1'
compile files('libs/ksoap2-android-3.4.0.jar')
compile files('libs/jsoup-1.8.3-sources.jar')
}
But in my activity, I still cannot import them.
How can I solve this problem?
It drives me mad.

You don't need
compile files('libs/ksoap2-android-3.4.0.jar')
compile files('libs/jsoup-1.8.3-sources.jar')
As long as you have those jar files in the libs folder, this gradle line will include them in your project.
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
It says "for every jar file in the libs/ directory, compile it." Having those two additional lines is redundant.

Cannot resolve Gradle Android dependency

I am trying to include the HoloColorPicker library (or for that matter any other library in my project), however, I cannot seem to get it to download.
The dependency section in my build.gradle file looks like:
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
compile 'com.google.android.support:wearable:1.1.+'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:6.5.+'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:21.0.+'
compile 'com.larswerkman:HoloColorPicker:1.5+'
wearApp project(':Wearable')
The error message I get is as follows:
What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring project
':Application'. Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration
':Application:_debugCompile'.
Could not find any version that matches com.larswerkman:HoloColorPicker:1.5+.
Searched in the following locations:
file:/Users/Tom/Library/Android/sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/larswerkman/HoloColorPicker/maven-metadata.xml
file:/Users/Tom/Library/Android/sdk/extras/android/m2repository/com/larswerkman/HoloColorPicker/
file:/Users/Tom/Library/Android/sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/larswerkman/HoloColorPicker/maven-metadata.xml
file:/Users/Tom/Library/Android/sdk/extras/google/m2repository/com/larswerkman/HoloColorPicker/
Required by:
watchfaces2.0:Application:unspecified
I cannot seem to figure out why Android Studio is looking for the library under my local path as opposed to pulling the library down from the internet. How can I get past this issue?

Have you included Maven in your gradle file?
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
compile 'com.google.android.support:wearable:1.1.+'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:6.5.+'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:21.0.+'
compile 'com.larswerkman:HoloColorPicker:1.5+'
wearApp project(':Wearable')
}

Just for complete the picture:
dependencies {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
compile 'com.google.android.support:wearable:1.1.+'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:6.5.+'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:21.0.+'
compile 'com.larswerkman:HoloColorPicker:1.5+'
wearApp project(':Wearable')
}