Android Dalvik Conversion For Xmlpullparser

I'm developing an Android app and for one component I can test outside of Android as it does not use any Android code. It uses xstream and I have the following libraries include: x

Solution 1:

I was having the same problem with a separately developed project that I was trying to integrate with an android app. The problem is that the Android API defines the class XmlPullParser (https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xmlpull/v1/XmlPullParser.html) and is why this conflict arises.

I solved the problem by excluding the xmlpull dependency from the project which allowed for the Android-defined version of the classes to be used. This is how my build.gradle file looks for the app module (just the dependency section to illustrate the exclusion):

dependencies {
    compile (project(':epublib:epublib-core')) {
        exclude group: 'xmlpull'
    }
    compile'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.+'compile'com.android.support:support-v4:21.0.+'
}

The syntax is important. It must be of the form

compile (project(':project-name')) {
        exclude group: 'group-name', module: 'module-name' 
}