I am trying to reduce the size of the apk using proguard . I am getting these warnigs messages while doing so ,
Warning: can't write resource [META-INF/LICENSE.txt] (Duplicate zip entry [commons-lang-2.6.jar:META-INF/LICENSE.txt])
Warning: can't write resource [META-INF/NOTICE.txt] (Duplicate zip entry [commons-lang-2.6.jar:META-INF/NOTICE.txt])
Warning: can't write resource [.readme] (Duplicate zip entry [classes.jar:.readme])
Apart from keeping classes is there any way to exclude these files ? I have excluded these in gradle file but that doesn't seem to work .
if you are using Android Studio , add this
to your build.gradle
packagingOptions {
exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
exclude '.README'
}
/// complete example
android {
compileSdkVersion 23
buildToolsVersion '22.0.1'
defaultConfig {
minSdkVersion 14
targetSdkVersion 22
versionCode 1
versionName '1.0'
renderscriptTargetApi 22
}
buildTypes {
debug {
debuggable true
minifyEnabled false
renderscriptDebuggable true
versionNameSuffix "-debug"
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
release {
debuggable false
minifyEnabled true
shrinkResources false
renderscriptDebuggable false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
packagingOptions {
exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
exclude '.README'
}
}