Error after adding boofcv-core to Android: java.lang.RuntimeException: Duplicate class com.google.protobuf

[SherMish]

I'm trying to add boofcv-core library to my Android project. boofcv-android works fine but boofcv-core generates the following error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Duplicate class com.google.protobuf.AbstractMessageLite found in modules protobuf-java-3.17.3.jar (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:3.17.3) and protobuf-javalite-3.14.0.jar (com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite:3.14.0)...

com.google.firebase:firebase-config uses protobuf-javalite and I can`t remove that library from the project.

The code at build.gradle:

...
configurations {
//    compile.exclude group: 'com.google.protobuf' // when uncommented, causes other errors
    all*.exclude group: "xmlpull", module: "xmlpull"
    all*.exclude group: "org.apache.commons", module: "commons-compress"
    all*.exclude group: "com.thoughtworks.xstream", module: "commons-compress"
}

dependencies {
    ['boofcv-android', 'boofcv-core'].each {
        String a -> implementation group: 'org.boofcv', name: a, version: '0.37'
    }
...

[SherMish]

Solved - https://stackoverflow.com/a/74362005/8916217

[lessthanoptimal]

Left a comment on stack, but you would probably be better off excluding the transitive dependency when calling implementation. Worried you might be including two versions of protobuf, but avoiding a compile time error.