Fix React Native Android builds "Duplicate class kotlin.collections.* found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0"

When I got up this morning, I was perplexed to see that our CI/CD builds were failing repeatedly with the following error:

Execution failed for task ':app:checkStagingReleaseDuplicateClasses'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.CheckDuplicatesRunnable
   > Duplicate class kotlin.collections.jdk8.CollectionsJDK8Kt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.internal.jdk7.JDK7PlatformImplementations found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.internal.jdk8.JDK8PlatformImplementations found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.io.path.ExperimentalPathApi found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.io.path.PathRelativizer found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.io.path.PathsKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.io.path.PathsKt__PathReadWriteKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.io.path.PathsKt__PathUtilsKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.jdk7.AutoCloseableKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.jvm.jdk8.JvmRepeatableKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.random.jdk8.PlatformThreadLocalRandom found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.streams.jdk8.StreamsKt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.streams.jdk8.StreamsKt$asSequence$$inlined$Sequence$1 found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.streams.jdk8.StreamsKt$asSequence$$inlined$Sequence$2 found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.streams.jdk8.StreamsKt$asSequence$$inlined$Sequence$3 found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.streams.jdk8.StreamsKt$asSequence$$inlined$Sequence$4 found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.text.jdk8.RegexExtensionsJDK8Kt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)
     Duplicate class kotlin.time.jdk8.DurationConversionsJDK8Kt found in modules jetified-kotlin-stdlib-1.8.0 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.8.0) and jetified-kotlin-stdlib-jdk8-1.6.10 (org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.6.10)

I looked for any problems relating to this but came up empty-handed. After making a few attempts, I discovered a workaround:

Your android/app/build.gradle file has to be updated in order to align kotlin-stdlib versions:

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
        eachDependency {
            if ((requested.group == "org.jetbrains.kotlin") && (requested.name.startsWith("kotlin-stdlib"))) {
                useVersion("1.6.10")
            }
        }
    }
}

---

UPDATE (27-01-2023):

In the android/app/build.gradle file, there is a better way to apply constraints for the two kotlin-stdlib-jdk7 and kotlin-stdlib-jdk8 modules:

dependencies {
    constraints {
        implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.8.0") {
            because("kotlin-stdlib-jdk7 is now a part of kotlin-stdlib")
        }
        implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.8.0") {
            because("kotlin-stdlib-jdk8 is now a part of kotlin-stdlib")
        }
    }

Comments

[Davyd NRB]

I'm happy to hear that

[David Velasco]

Just logged in to say thank you.

[Davyd NRB]

You're the best.

[Peter Malinovsky]

Thank you for the post. I meet the same errors and your first solution helped to fix them. I try to find a better sollution. I upgraded Kotlin to the latest version and it works fine.

[Davyd NRB]

Please give additional information about how you updated Kotlin in your project or on CI?

[Jens Neuber]

Thanks!

[werder]

Thank you so much! Wasted like 3 hours on that!

[pheN1x]

Thank you so much my friend! 100+ build failed yesterday can you explain us how did you find this?

[Branko Bajic]

Created an account just to thank you

[Tiago de Jesus]

Thank you so much!!! I lost a lot of time with this problem. God bless you! 🚀🚀🚀

[Abbasali]

great! this worked for me also

[nb-immosnapp]

Thanks you so much!

[Rabi]

How can I update this in expo project because android/app/build.gradle is not available in my project directory??.

[Davyd NRB]

you can create own config plugin docs.expo.dev/guides/config-plugins/ that inject this value

[Quang Vinh Dang]

Thank you so much.

[Tatyana Pogudo]

Thank you so much! It helped me 💪

[Vũ N]

Thank you so much!

[Syam Kishore]

Issue resolved. Thank you.

I am a react-native developer and there is no kotlin code in my project, I do not do any bridging.

Still Do i need to maintain any plugins or constrains related to Kotlin?