AAPT: error: duplicate value for resource 'attr/orientation' with config ''

Question

I am using a third party library ( cosmos calendar) and it have android.support dependency while i am using androidx for all my project .this caused a conflict, and this error on the gridLayout dependecy :

AAPT: error: duplicate value for resource 'attr/orientation' with config ''.

i remove gridlayout or the cosmos calendar dependency ,the project builds but can't build using both dependencies. how can i workaround this conflict ?

Can be helpful, Please check this out. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53895569/error-duplicate-value-for-resource-attr-orientation-with-config-aapt-v2-a/53895653#53895653 — aslamhossin, Jun 22 '20 at 01:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 23 '20 at 11:08

I ended up importing the whole cosmoCalendar library from github'since it is an open source project) migrating and refactoring it to work with AndroidX then packed it in a .aar file and add it as dependency in my project , everything then worked fine .

AAPT: error: duplicate value for resource 'attr/orientation' with config ''

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