android - How to exclude multiple file reference from Gradle file

Question

One of the SDK requires com.commonsware.cwac:merge:1.1.1 in my project. So i added it. After adding it one of the SDK that was working fine before, started crashing. If i remove com.commonsware.cwac:merge:1.1.1, it works fine again.

When i check dependency-tree of my older project(The one which does not have commonsware1.1.1 defined in the gradle file) Thecommonsware library does not appear in dependency-tree, but when i check the Method Count It displays commonsware methods there in the method count list.

After adding commonsware in the gradle file,

compile 'com.commonsware.cwac:merge:1.1.1'

It displays commonsware in the dependency-tree as well as in method-count, but commonsware is displaying 63-Methods in Method Count here.

This may be the reason that after adding the commonsware1.1.1, the app is crashing on the older SDK.

The 2 commonsware libraries may be conflicting, Kindly guide me how to tackle this.

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