Error: Program type already present: com.google.android.libraries.places.api.internal.impl.net.pablo.AutocompletePredictionResult$StructuredFormatting" after adding new libraries

[googlemaps-samples]

Error: Program type already present: com.google.android.libraries.places.api.internal.impl.net.pablo.AutocompletePredictionResult$StructuredFormatting" after adding new libraries

[amuramoto]

This is because you are including both places and places-compat. You must remove one of them.

[joelmmx]

If you remove the first one: com.google.android.libraries.places:places:1.0.0 the project doesn't compile.
If you remove the second one: com.google.android.libraries.places:places-compat:1.0.0 the project can compile, but in runtime doesn't work,
Any idea to resolve??
@eriknyk , could you resolve it ?

[kamilwyszynski]

I have the same problem and removing one of them doesn't solve the problem.
I left the com.google.android.libraries.places:places:1.0.0 and the error is exactly the same.
What should I do?
@eriknyk

[dharmeshrathore]

i am having the same problem

Error: Program type already present: com.google.android.libraries.places.api.internal.impl.net.pablo.AutocompletePredictionResult$StructuredFormatting

what should i do?

[amuramoto]

@kamilwyszynski @dharmeshrathore Can you provide a link to your gradle file?

[McKabue]

Same problem here

[amuramoto]

@McKabue can you provide a link to your gradle file?

[jwilly12]

I have the same issue, what was the solution?

[asmodeus78]

Same problem any solution found?

[jwilly12]

It was a library issue. Google is confusing with their new Places SDK migration description.
But I fixed the issue doing the following:

In Gradle App dependencies
implementation 'com.google.android.libraries.places:places:1.1.0' // Remove
implementation 'com.google.android.libraries.places:places-compat:1.1.0' // Add

*** In activity
import com.google.android.libraries.places.api.net.PlacesClient; // Remove
import com.google.android.libraries.places.api.Places; // Remove

*** Remove all com.google.android.gms.location.places and replace with:

import com.google.android.libraries.places.compat.AutocompletePredictionBufferResponse; // New
import com.google.android.libraries.places.compat.AutocompletePrediction; //New
import com.google.android.libraries.places.compat.AutocompleteFilter; //New
import com.google.android.libraries.places.compat.GeoDataClient; //New
import com.google.android.libraries.places.compat.Place; //New
import com.google.android.libraries.places.compat.Places; //New
import com.google.android.libraries.places.compat.PlaceBufferResponse; //New

[amuramoto]

thanks for the info @jwilly12!

[eriknyk]

@kamilwyszynski nope, I have not luck to get com.google.android.libraries.places.compat working,
I spend about half day trying to get this working, and after that I decided to rewrite the implementation with using new api so get rid of places.compat, and rewrite the code took in my case half hour.

[rufinex]

Duplicate class com.google.android.libraries.places.api.internal.impl.net.pablo.AutocompletePredictionResult found in modules classes.jar (com.google.android.libraries.places:places-compat:1.1.0) and classes.jar (com.google.android.libraries.places:places:1.1.0)

It's impossible to solve this duplicity until a solution to this problem appears, I'll continue using 'com.google.android.gms: play-services-places: 16.1.0'

[AmritpalSingh5]

Just comment this 'com.google.android.libraries.places:places:1.0.0' use only this 'com.google.android.libraries.places:places-compat:1.0.0' issue will resolved.