DuplicateRelativeFileException

[mtwalli]

Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDemoDebugJavaResource'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.MergeJavaResWorkAction
   > 2 files found with path 'META-INF/versions/9/previous-compilation-data.bin' from inputs:
      - /Users/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.jetbrains.kotlinx/kotlinx-serialization-core-jvm/1.6.0-RC/dd8fbc282650a6d12858820b8190919055de6bed/kotlinx-serialization-core-jvm-1.6.0-RC.jar
      - /Users/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.jetbrains.kotlinx/kotlinx-serialization-json-jvm/1.6.0-RC/b6556b04359bc6ed73bc758c8b01a2ec478dbead/kotlinx-serialization-json-jvm-1.6.0-RC.jar
     Adding a packagingOptions block may help, please refer to
     https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/8.2/com/android/build/api/dsl/ResourcesPackagingOptions
     for more information

[sandwwraith]

As a workaround, you can add

 android {
     packagingOptions { 
         exclude 'META-INF/versions/9/previous-compilation-data.bin'
     }
 }