Android Material and appcompat Manifest merger failed

I have next grade dependencies { implementation fileTree(dir: ‘libs’, include: [‘*.jar’]) implementation ‘com.android.support:appcompat-v7:28.0.0-rc01’ implementation ‘com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.2’ testImplementation ‘junit:junit:4.12’ androidTestImplementation ‘com.android.support.test:runner:1.0.2’ androidTestImplementation ‘com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.0.2’ implementation ‘com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0-rc01’ } But when I want to build app I get next log: Manifest merger failed : Attribute application@appComponentFactory value=(android.support.v4.app.CoreComponentFactory) from [com.android.support:support-compat:28.0.0-alpha3] AndroidManifest.xml:22:18-91 is also present at [androidx.core:core:1.0.0-alpha3] AndroidManifest.xml:22:18-86 value=(androidx.core.app.CoreComponentFactory). Suggestion: add ‘tools:replace=”android:appComponentFactory”‘ … Read more

What’s the difference between implementation, api and compile in Gradle?

After updating to Android Studio 3.0 and creating a new project, I noticed that in build.gradle there is a new way to add new dependencies instead of compile there is implementation and instead of testCompile there is testImplementation. Example: implementation ‘com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.0.0’ testImplementation ‘junit:junit:4.12’ instead of compile ‘com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.0.0’ testCompile ‘junit:junit:4.12′ What’s the difference between them and … Read more