Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithMultidexlistForDebug'. Error while generating the main dex list.

[silldepair]

can you help me bro, i get stuck with this over 1 week now, alraedy try many things, the error also variety, but for now i got this error,:

Configure project :rn-fetch-blob
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

Task :app:processDebugGoogleServices
Parsing json file: /Users/michaellim/Documents/Project/reactnative/new/euphebe/android/app/google-services.json

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithMultidexlistForDebug'.

com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: Error while generating the main dex list.

RN : 0.57.8
app/build.gradle :
apply plugin: "com.android.application"

import com.android.build.OutputFile

/**

• The react.gradle file registers a task for each build variant (e.g. bundleDebugJsAndAssets
• and bundleReleaseJsAndAssets).
• These basically call react-native bundle with the correct arguments during the Android build
• cycle. By default, bundleDebugJsAndAssets is skipped, as in debug/dev mode we prefer to load the
• bundle directly from the development server. Below you can see all the possible configurations
• and their defaults. If you decide to add a configuration block, make sure to add it before the
• apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle" line.
• project.ext.react = [
• // the name of the generated asset file containing your JS bundle
• bundleAssetName: "index.android.bundle",
• // the entry file for bundle generation
• entryFile: "index.android.js",
• // whether to bundle JS and assets in debug mode
• bundleInDebug: false,
• // whether to bundle JS and assets in release mode
• bundleInRelease: true,
• // whether to bundle JS and assets in another build variant (if configured).
• // See http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide#TOC-Build-Variants
• // The configuration property can be in the following formats
• // 'bundleIn${productFlavor}${buildType}'
• // 'bundleIn${buildType}'
• // bundleInFreeDebug: true,
• // bundleInPaidRelease: true,
• // bundleInBeta: true,
• // whether to disable dev mode in custom build variants (by default only disabled in release)
• // for example: to disable dev mode in the staging build type (if configured)
• devDisabledInStaging: true,
• // The configuration property can be in the following formats
• // 'devDisabledIn${productFlavor}${buildType}'
• // 'devDisabledIn${buildType}'
• // the root of your project, i.e. where "package.json" lives
• root: "../../",
• // where to put the JS bundle asset in debug mode
• jsBundleDirDebug: "$buildDir/intermediates/assets/debug",
• // where to put the JS bundle asset in release mode
• jsBundleDirRelease: "$buildDir/intermediates/assets/release",
• // where to put drawable resources / React Native assets, e.g. the ones you use via
• // require('./image.png')), in debug mode
• resourcesDirDebug: "$buildDir/intermediates/res/merged/debug",
• // where to put drawable resources / React Native assets, e.g. the ones you use via
• // require('./image.png')), in release mode
• resourcesDirRelease: "$buildDir/intermediates/res/merged/release",
• // by default the gradle tasks are skipped if none of the JS files or assets change; this means
• // that we don't look at files in android/ or ios/ to determine whether the tasks are up to
• // date; if you have any other folders that you want to ignore for performance reasons (gradle
• // indexes the entire tree), add them here. Alternatively, if you have JS files in android/
• // for example, you might want to remove it from here.
• inputExcludes: ["android/", "ios/"],
• // override which node gets called and with what additional arguments
• nodeExecutableAndArgs: ["node"],
• // supply additional arguments to the packager
• extraPackagerArgs: []
• ]
  */

project.ext.react = [
entryFile: "index.js",
bundleAssetName: "app.bundle"
]

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"

/**

• Set this to true to create two separate APKs instead of one:
• • An APK that only works on ARM devices
• • An APK that only works on x86 devices
• The advantage is the size of the APK is reduced by about 4MB.
• Upload all the APKs to the Play Store and people will download
• the correct one based on the CPU architecture of their device.
  */
  def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = false

/**

• Run Proguard to shrink the Java bytecode in release builds.
  */
  def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = false

project.ext.vectoricons = [
iconFontNames: [ 'FontAwesome.ttf', 'icomoon.ttf' ] // Name of the font files you want to copy
]

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native-vector-icons/fonts.gradle"

android {
compileSdkVersion rootProject.ext.compileSdkVersion
buildToolsVersion rootProject.ext.buildToolsVersion

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.carii.euphebe"
    minSdkVersion rootProject.ext.minSdkVersion
    targetSdkVersion rootProject.ext.targetSdkVersion
    versionCode 24
    versionName "1.24"
    multiDexEnabled true
    ndk {
        abiFilters "armeabi-v7a", "x86"
    }
    vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
}
signingConfigs {
    release {
        if (project.hasProperty('MYAPP_RELEASE_STORE_FILE')) {
            storeFile file(MYAPP_RELEASE_STORE_FILE)
            storePassword MYAPP_RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD
            keyAlias MYAPP_RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS
            keyPassword MYAPP_RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD
        }
    }
}
dexOptions {
    javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
}
splits {
    abi {
        reset()
        enable enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture
        universalApk false  // If true, also generate a universal APK
        include "armeabi-v7a", "x86"
    }
}
buildTypes {
    release {
        minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
        signingConfig signingConfigs.release
    }
    debug {
        minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
        signingConfig signingConfigs.release
    }
}
// applicationVariants are e.g. debug, release
applicationVariants.all { variant ->
    variant.outputs.each { output ->
        // For each separate APK per architecture, set a unique version code as described here:
        // http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide/apk-splits
        def versionCodes = ["armeabi-v7a":1, "x86":2]
        def abi = output.getFilter(OutputFile.ABI)
        if (abi != null) {  // null for the universal-debug, universal-release variants
            output.versionCodeOverride =
                    versionCodes.get(abi) * 1048576 + defaultConfig.versionCode
        }
    }
}

}

dependencies {
implementation project(':rn-fetch-blob')
//implementation project(':react-native-firebase')
implementation project(':react-native-image-crop-picker')
implementation project(':react-native-youtube')
implementation project(':react-native-webview-bridge')
implementation project(':react-native-video')
implementation project(':react-native-spinkit')
implementation project(':react-native-image-picker')
implementation project(':react-native-config')
implementation project(':react-native-i18n')
implementation project(':react-native-vector-icons')
implementation fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
implementation "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:${rootProject.ext.supportLibVersion}"
implementation ("com.facebook.react:react-native:0.57.8") { force = true } // From node_modules
implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-base:16.0.1"
//implementation "com.google.firebase:firebase-core:16.0.4"
//implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:17.3.4'
implementation 'me.leolin:ShortcutBadger:1.1.21@aar'
implementation(project(':react-native-jitsi-meet')){
exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-locale-detector'
exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-vector-icons'
exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'rn-fetch-blob'
//exclude group: 'com.facebook.react',module:'react-native-firebase'
}
}

// Run this once to be able to run the application with BUCK
// puts all compile dependencies into folder libs for BUCK to use
task copyDownloadableDepsToLibs(type: Copy) {
from configurations.compile
into 'libs'
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

android/build.gradle :
// Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.

buildscript {
ext {
buildToolsVersion = "27.0.3"
minSdkVersion = 19
compileSdkVersion = 27
targetSdkVersion = 26
supportLibVersion = "27.1.1"
}
repositories {
google()
jcenter()

    // mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.4'
    classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.0.1'
    // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
    // in the individual module build.gradle files
}

}

allprojects {
repositories {
mavenLocal()
google()
jcenter()
maven {
// All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
}
maven { // <---- Add this block
url "https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-maven-repository/raw/master/releases"
}
maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
}
}

subprojects {
if (project.name.contains('react-native-image-picker')) {
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
maven { url "https://dl.bintray.com/android/android-tools/" }
}
}
}
}

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
gradleVersion = '4.4'
//distributionUrl = distributionUrl.replace("bin", "all")
}

[skrafft]

@silldepair , can you send me the full error log ? I think the real error is above what you pasted.

[silldepair]

@skrafft sorry for late reply
here the full log :
react-native run-android
JS server already running.
Building and installing the app on the device (cd android && ./gradlew installDebug)...
Starting a Gradle Daemon (subsequent builds will be faster)

Configure project :app
Could not find google-services.json while looking in [src/nullnull/debug, src/debug/nullnull, src/nullnull, src/debug, src/nullnullDebug]
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)
Could not find google-services.json while looking in [src/nullnull/release, src/release/nullnull, src/nullnull, src/release, src/nullnullRelease]
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)

Configure project :react-native-config
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

Configure project :react-native-i18n
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

Configure project :react-native-image-crop-picker
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

Configure project :react-native-image-picker
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html
WARNING: Configuration 'testCompile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'testImplementation' and 'testApi'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html
WARNING: Configuration 'testApi' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'testImplementation'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

Configure project :react-native-spinkit
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

Configure project :react-native-video
WARNING: Configuration 'provided' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'compileOnly'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

Configure project :react-native-webview-bridge
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

Configure project :react-native-youtube
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html
WARNING: The specified Android SDK Build Tools version (23.0.1) is ignored, as it is below the minimum supported version (27.0.3) for Android Gradle Plugin 3.1.4.
Android SDK Build Tools 27.0.3 will be used.
To suppress this warning, remove "buildToolsVersion '23.0.1'" from your build.gradle file, as each version of the Android Gradle Plugin now has a default version of the build tools.

Configure project :rn-fetch-blob
WARNING: Configuration 'compile' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'implementation' and 'api'.
It will be removed at the end of 2018. For more information see: http://d.android.com/r/tools/update-dependency-configurations.html

Task :app:processDebugGoogleServices
Parsing json file: /Users/michaellim/Documents/Project/reactnative/new/euphebe/android/app/google-services.json

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithMultidexlistForDebug'.

com.android.build.api.transform.TransformException: Error while generating the main dex list.

• Try:
  Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

• Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 56s
198 actionable tasks: 2 executed, 196 up-to-date
Could not install the app on the device, read the error above for details.
Make sure you have an Android emulator running or a device connected and have
set up your Android development environment:
https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html
tw-sandi:euphebe michaellim$

[skrafft]

Hi,

Reading your log, it seems that your error is not related to react-native-jitsi-meet but rather to google services. Running the android build command with --info or --debug should provide more information.

[lironsher]

hi, did you solved the issue ?