Unable to add dependency because build error caused by conflict with com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite

[marcardar]

The Android dependency has a dependency on com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java and so results in a build error when the app also has a dependency on com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite (such as firestore). I can't find a way to workaround this.

Apps cannot depend on both of those dependencies.

I've tried various proposed solutions such as excluding protobuf-javalite dependency from the firestore dependency (this gives a VerifyError) and excluding protobuf-java from my app dependency, but nothing works. I've also tried forcing the version of protobuf-java or protobuf-javalite.

This is essentially blocking me from using libsql in my app. Can libsql depend on com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite instead?

FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.
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* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:checkDebugDuplicateClasses'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.CheckDuplicatesRunnable
   > Duplicate class com.google.protobuf.AbstractMessageLite found in modules protobuf-java-3.24.0.jar -> protobuf-java-3.24.0 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.24.0) and protobuf-javalite-3.25.1.jar -> protobuf-javalite-3.25.1 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite:3.25.1)
     Duplicate class com.google.protobuf.AbstractMessageLite$Builder found in modules protobuf-java-3.24.0.jar -> protobuf-java-3.24.0 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.24.0) and protobuf-javalite-3.25.1.jar -> protobuf-javalite-3.25.1 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite:3.25.1)
     Duplicate class com.google.protobuf.AbstractMessageLite$Builder$LimitedInputStream found in modules protobuf-java-3.24.0.jar -> protobuf-java-3.24.0 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.24.0) and protobuf-javalite-3.25.1.jar -> protobuf-javalite-3.25.1 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite:3.25.1)
     Duplicate class com.google.protobuf.AbstractMessageLite$InternalOneOfEnum found in modules protobuf-java-3.24.0.jar -> protobuf-java-3.24.0 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.24.0) and protobuf-javalite-3.25.1.jar -> protobuf-javalite-3.25.1 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite:3.25.1)
     Duplicate class com.google.protobuf.AbstractParser found in modules protobuf-java-3.24.0.jar -> protobuf-java-3.24.0 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.24.0) and protobuf-javalite-3.25.1.jar -> protobuf-javalite-3.25.1 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite:3.25.1)
     Duplicate class com.google.protobuf.AbstractProtobufList found in modules protobuf-java-3.24.0.jar -> protobuf-java-3.24.0 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.24.0) and protobuf-javalite-3.25.1.jar -> protobuf-javalite-3.25.1 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite:3.25.1)
     Duplicate class com.google.protobuf.AllocatedBuffer found in modules protobuf-java-3.24.0.jar -> protobuf-java-3.24.0 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.24.0) and protobuf-javalite-3.25.1.jar -> protobuf-javalite-3.25.1 (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite:3.25.1)
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