In my Android project, I use a library that comes as a jar. I include it in the dependencies section like so:
dependencies {
...
compile files('libs/thethirdpartylibrary.jar')
...
}
I also want to use the okhttp library, which I include like this:
compile ('com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.7.5')
(This particular version of okhttp depends on okio 1.6.0.)
The problem is that the thirdparty jar library depends on okio v0.9.0 and what's worse, bundles it.
As a result, I get a dex conflict error at build time.
I was able to resolve this by manually removing okio from the jar file and this seems to work. But I'm wondering if there's a way to do this in gradle.
My question: Can I remove bundled, transitive ( <- I hope I'm using this word the right way) dependencies from an included jar during build-time with gradle?