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Instrumented Tests Will Not Run -- 6 files found with path 'META-INF/LICENSE.md'
Getting this error stating that there are these duplicate meta data files. I tried adding the packagingOptions block in my build.gradle file to exclude these files, but then my tests won't run at all. Is there a way to manually remove the duplicates? Where would these files be located? Any help is greatly appreciated. I am lost lol.
Tests:
@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4::class)
class ViewModelTests {

@get:Rule(order = 1)
val testRule =...