Google Play Age Signals – R8 Duplicate Class Errors (androidx.tracing + androidx.savedstate) in Xamarin/Android Binding

[kk25maj]

Description

We are integrating the Google Play Age Signals API (package: com.google.android.play:age-signals) using the official Xamarin binding package ‘Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.Age.Signals (0.0.1-beta02)’.

During R8/D8 compilation, the build fails with duplicate class errors:

Duplicate class: androidx.tracing.TraceKt$traceAsync$1 - tracing-android.aar - tracing-ktx.aar

Duplicate class: androidx.savedstate.ViewKt - savedstate-android.aar - savedstate-ktx.aar

This occurs even when:

Explicitly pinning AndroidX versions
Excluding tracing/savedstate dependencies
Adding ProGuard rules
Using in NuGet
The issue appears to originate from the Age Signals AAR pulling mismatched AndroidX dependencies (ktx + non-ktx) that produce conflicting classes.

We cannot integrate Age Signals into production until this is resolved.

Request:

Please verify the dependency structure for com.google.android.play:age-signals
Update the AAR to depend consistently on either android or ktx variants
Provide guidance for R8/D8 linking with Age Signals
Environment:

.NET 9 Android
R8 8.7.x
Xamarin.AndroidX.* stable versions
Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.Age.Signals 0.0.1-beta02
Thank you.

Steps to Reproduce

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Link to public reproduction project repository

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Version with bug

10.0.20

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

No, this is something new

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

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Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

[jonathanpeppers]

This is probably duplicate of:

• Fixing: Type XYZ is defined multiple times || packages generated by more than one managed type #764

Can you share a sample project with this problem?

The fix is to update various packages to latest and the problem will go away.

[cnkHomero]

@jonathanpeppers I'm encourntering the same issue. I've attached a simple .Net MAUI project for Android / iOS & added a reference to 'Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.Age.Signals'. You should be able to reproduce by targeting the Android platform and attempting to compile.

MauiAVApp.zip

[kk25maj]

exactly same issue .. as in attached zip file

is this solution ?

#764

[moljac]

is this solution ?

#764

Yes. That issue is there to give users feeling what needs to be done.

[kk25maj]

THANKS jonathanpeppers
HVALA MOLJAC !!!!!!

Solved – R8/D8 duplicate class errors with Age Signals

We hit R8/D8 errors like:

Duplicate class androidx.tracing.TraceKt$traceAsync$1

Duplicate class androidx.savedstate.ViewKt

when integrating Xamarin.Google.Android.Play.Age.Signals (0.0.1) on .NET 9 Android.

Root cause:
Mismatched AndroidX *-android vs *-ktx package versions pulled transitively by Age Signals, resulting in the same classes being packaged twice.

How we fixed it:

Ran:

dotnet list package --include-transitive

and found version mismatches:

Tracing.Android 1.3.0.1 vs Tracing.Ktx 1.2.0.11

SavedState.Android 1.3.1.1 vs SavedState.Ktx 1.2.1.17

Explicitly pinned the KTX packages to match the Android ones in the Android project .csproj:

PackageReference Include="Xamarin.AndroidX.Tracing.Tracing.Ktx" Version="1.3.0.1"
PackageReference Include="Xamarin.AndroidX.SavedState.SavedState.Ktx" Version="1.3.1.1"

Deleted bin/ and obj/, then ran:

dotnet restore
dotnet build -c Release

Result:
Release build succeeds, R8/D8 duplicate class errors are gone, Age Signals works correctly.

This matches the known AndroidX “type defined multiple times” issue caused by version misalignment between android and ktx artifacts.

[kk25maj]

PackageReference Include="Xamarin.AndroidX.Tracing.Tracing.Ktx" Version="1.3.0.1"
PackageReference Include="Xamarin.AndroidX.SavedState.SavedState.Ktx" Version="1.3.1.1"

[moljac]

HVALA MOLJAC !!!!!!

Nema na cemu!

[moljac]

exactly same issue .. as in attached zip file

is this solution ?

#764

This is not direct solution, but bunch of samples to get idea what is going on. Libraries are living ecosystem and they change. Google moves types around, modifies libraries and that causes problems.