How to use only androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-common:2.4.1

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I use androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.4.1 in my android project
and androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.4.1 dependent androidx.activity:activity:1.2.4
and androidx.activity:activity:1.2.4 dependent both androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-common:2.0.0 and androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-common:2.4.1

how can i config my build.gradle, and let the gradle only use one version androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-common, thank you

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Gradle’s version conflict resolution is already doing what you want. When you see 1.2.3 -> 4.5.6 in the dependency report, that means the requested version was 1.2.3, but 4.5.6 was selected.

So in your example, lifecycle-common version 2.0.0 was requested, but version 2.4.1 was selected.

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Hi, Chris Dore. thanks for your reply.
In fact, when i apply appcompat sdk, i use the gradle code below:

api "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:$APPCOMPAT_VERSION", { exclude group: 'androidx.lifecycle', module: 'lifecycle-common' }

but still print like the picture above, appcompat still dependent lifecycle-common even i exclude it.
I want gradle don’t print lifecycle-common sdk, what should i do?
should i exclude savedstate or lifecycle-viewmodel-savedstate instead of lifecycle-common to achieve this?

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Why do you want this? Is there a problem with Gradle choosing version 2.4.1 of lifecycle-common?

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without exclude, gradle download multiple versions of lifecycle-common, both 2.0.0 and 2.4.1, i think this will increase the compile time of my project. :joy:

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Gradle is only using one version for the compile classpath, version 2.4.1. That’s what 2.0.0 -> 2.4.1 means in the dependencies report. If you are actually seeing multiple versions on the compile classpath then something weird is going on.

A task like the following will show you the resolved jars for the compile classpath:

task dumpCompileDeps {
    doLast {
         println configurations.compileClasspath.join('\n')
         // or filtered
         //println configurations.compileClasspath.findAll { it.name ==~ /lifecycle-common.*/ }.join('\n')
    }
}
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fine, Chris Dore, thanks a lot !