Gradle Error when try to add dependency for Zxing

Question

I tried to add a dependency "me.dm7.barcodescanner:zxing:1.9.8" for the barcode scanner functionality. It populates Gradle error as given in image

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Answer 1

This happens because this library uses the old version com.android.support libs.

Try do this:

implementation ("me.dm7.barcodescanner:zxing:1.9.8") {
    exclude group: "com.android.support"
}