Duplicate Classes In Same Jars Of Different Versions - Android

I was trying to integrate iText in my Android Studio project when the sync successfully completed. Then I wrote some code and tried to build and test it when it gave an error (A hu

Solution 1:

Thanks to the guys in the comments, I could solve the problem quite easily. What i did was ran gradlew app:dependencies and it gave me a dependency tree.

From that tree i could make out which parts of the library required which transitive dependencies and i excluded the jcommon library of the lower version which did not have any other dependencies using: exclude group: 'jfree', module: 'jcommon'