Fresco build issue when upgrading from 0.61.4 to 0.63.1

Description

Since fresco has downsampling issues when linked with React-Native (see: https://github.com/facebook/fresco/issues/2397), I had to use a forked Fresco's version and build it manually. It worked well in react-native 0.61.4 but when I tried to update to react-native 0.63.1 I have this error :

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:multiDexListDebug'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
   > Error while merging dex archives: 
     Learn how to resolve the issue at https://developer.android.com/studio/build/dependencies#duplicate_classes.
     Program type already present: com.facebook.drawee.backends.pipeline.BuildConfig

It seems that react-native includes fresco now and it conflict with the builded fresco version.

I tried things like this :

dependencies {
        implementation("com.facebook.react:react-native:+") {
            exclude group: 'com.facebook.fresco'
    }

But it didn't worked very well.

If I comment the part where I build my forked fresco library it work very well. But then I will have issues with downsampling...

Is there a way to exclude fresco and only keep my own fresco build ?

Here is my gradle code :

apply plugin: "com.android.application"

import com.android.build.OutputFile

/**
 * The react.gradle file registers a task for each build variant (e.g. bundleDebugJsAndAssets
 * and bundleReleaseJsAndAssets).
 * These basically call `react-native bundle` with the correct arguments during the Android build
 * cycle. By default, bundleDebugJsAndAssets is skipped, as in debug/dev mode we prefer to load the
 * bundle directly from the development server. Below you can see all the possible configurations
 * and their defaults. If you decide to add a configuration block, make sure to add it before the
 * `apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"` line.
 *
 * project.ext.react = [
 *   // the name of the generated asset file containing your JS bundle
 *   bundleAssetName: "index.android.bundle",
 *
 *   // the entry file for bundle generation
 *   entryFile: "index.android.js",
 *
 *   // whether to bundle JS and assets in debug mode
 *   bundleInDebug: false,
 *
 *   // whether to bundle JS and assets in release mode
 *   bundleInRelease: true,
 *
 *   // whether to bundle JS and assets in another build variant (if configured).
 *   // See http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide#TOC-Build-Variants
 *   // The configuration property can be in the following formats
 *   //         'bundleIn${productFlavor}${buildType}'
 *   //         'bundleIn${buildType}'
 *   // bundleInFreeDebug: true,
 *   // bundleInPaidRelease: true,
 *   // bundleInBeta: true,
 *
 *   // the root of your project, i.e. where "package.json" lives
 *   root: "../../",
 *
 *   // where to put the JS bundle asset in debug mode
 *   jsBundleDirDebug: "$buildDir/intermediates/assets/debug",
 *
 *   // where to put the JS bundle asset in release mode
 *   jsBundleDirRelease: "$buildDir/intermediates/assets/release",
 *
 *   // where to put drawable resources / React Native assets, e.g. the ones you use via
 *   // require('./image.png')), in debug mode
 *   resourcesDirDebug: "$buildDir/intermediates/res/merged/debug",
 *
 *   // where to put drawable resources / React Native assets, e.g. the ones you use via
 *   // require('./image.png')), in release mode
 *   resourcesDirRelease: "$buildDir/intermediates/res/merged/release",
 *
 *   // by default the gradle tasks are skipped if none of the JS files or assets change; this means
 *   // that we don't look at files in android/ or ios/ to determine whether the tasks are up to
 *   // date; if you have any other folders that you want to ignore for performance reasons (gradle
 *   // indexes the entire tree), add them here. Alternatively, if you have JS files in android/
 *   // for example, you might want to remove it from here.
 *   inputExcludes: ["android/**", "ios/**"],
 *
 *   // override which node gets called and with what additional arguments
 *   nodeExecutableAndArgs: ["node"]
 *
 *   // supply additional arguments to the packager
 *   extraPackagerArgs: []
 * ]
 */

project.ext.react = [
    enableHermes: false,  // clean and rebuild if changing
]

apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native/react.gradle"
apply from: "../../node_modules/react-native-code-push/android/codepush.gradle"

/**
 * Set this to true to create two separate APKs instead of one:
 *   - An APK that only works on ARM devices
 *   - An APK that only works on x86 devices
 * The advantage is the size of the APK is reduced by about 4MB.
 * Upload all the APKs to the Play Store and people will download
 * the correct one based on the CPU architecture of their device.
 */
def enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture = true

/**
 * Run Proguard to shrink the Java bytecode in release builds.
 */
def enableProguardInReleaseBuilds = true

/**
 * The preferred build flavor of JavaScriptCore.
 *
 * For example, to use the international variant, you can use:
 * `def jscFlavor = 'org.webkit:android-jsc-intl:+'`
 *
 * The international variant includes ICU i18n library and necessary data
 * allowing to use e.g. `Date.toLocaleString` and `String.localeCompare` that
 * give correct results when using with locales other than en-US.  Note that
 * this variant is about 6MiB larger per architecture than default.
 */
def jscFlavor = 'org.webkit:android-jsc:+'
/**
 * Whether to enable the Hermes VM.
 *
 * This should be set on project.ext.react and mirrored here.  If it is not set
 * on project.ext.react, JavaScript will not be compiled to Hermes Bytecode
 * and the benefits of using Hermes will therefore be sharply reduced.
 */
def enableHermes = project.ext.react.get("enableHermes", false);

android {
    compileSdkVersion 28

    compileOptions {
            sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
            targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }

    defaultConfig {
            applicationId "___REMOVED___"
            minSdkVersion 19
            targetSdkVersion 28
            versionCode 1776
            versionName "10.0.556"
            renderscriptTargetApi 23
            renderscriptSupportModeEnabled true
            multiDexEnabled true
            vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
            missingDimensionStrategy 'react-native-camera', 'general'
    }

    splits {
            abi {
                    reset()
                    enable enableSeparateBuildPerCPUArchitecture
                    universalApk false  // If true, also generate a universal APK
                    include "armeabi-v7a", "x86", "arm64-v8a", "x86_64"
            }
    }
    dexOptions {
            jumboMode = true
    }
    buildTypes {
            release {
                    minifyEnabled enableProguardInReleaseBuilds
                    proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro"
          signingConfig signingConfigs.release
            }
    }

    // applicationVariants are e.g. debug, release
    applicationVariants.all { variant ->
            variant.outputs.each { output ->
                    // For each separate APK per architecture, set a unique version code as described here:
                    // http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide/apk-splits
                    def versionCodes = ["armeabi-v7a":1, "x86":2, "arm64-v8a": 3, "x86_64": 4]
                    def abi = output.getFilter(OutputFile.ABI)
                    if (abi != null) {  // null for the universal-debug, universal-release variants
                            output.versionCodeOverride =
                                            versionCodes.get(abi) * 1048576 + defaultConfig.versionCode
                    }
            }
    }

  packagingOptions {
        pickFirst '**/*.so'
  }
}

dependencies {
        implementation("com.facebook.react:react-native:+")
        implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:2.1.0'
        implementation project(':react-native-safe-area-context')
    implementation project(':react-native-pdf')
    implementation project(':react-native-image-crop-picker')
    implementation project(':react-native-ffmpeg')
    implementation project(':react-native-fcm')
    implementation project(':react-native-static-server')
    implementation project(':react-native-sound')
    implementation project(':lottie-react-native')
    implementation project(':react-native-code-push')
    implementation project(':react-native-reanimated')
    implementation project(':react-native-webview')
    implementation project(':react-native-screens')
        implementation "androidx.swiperefreshlayout:swiperefreshlayout:1.0.0"
    compile project(':react-native-gesture-handler')

    debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
        exclude group:'com.facebook.fbjni'
    }
    debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-network-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
        exclude group:'com.facebook.flipper'
    }
    debugImplementation("com.facebook.flipper:flipper-fresco-plugin:${FLIPPER_VERSION}") {
        exclude group:'com.facebook.flipper'
    }

    if (enableHermes) {
      def hermesPath = "../../node_modules/hermes-engine/android/";
      debugImplementation files(hermesPath + "hermes-debug.aar")
      releaseImplementation files(hermesPath + "hermes-release.aar")
    } else {
      implementation jscFlavor
    }

    compile project(':react-native-zip-archive')
    implementation project(':rn-fetch-blob')
    implementation project(':react-native-community-netinfo')
    compile project(':react-native-camera')
    compile project(':react-native-photo-view-ex')
    compile project(':react-native-video')
    compile project(':react-native-svg')
    compile project(':react-native-orientation-locker')
    compile project(':react-native-keychain')
    compile project(':react-native-youtube')
    compile project(':react-native-linear-gradient')
    compile project(':react-native-spinkit')
    compile project(':react-native-background-upload')
    compile project(':react-native-keep-awake')
    compile project(':react-native-track-player')
    implementation project(':react-native-permissions')
    implementation project(':react-native-localize')
    implementation project(':react-native-sqlite-storage')
    implementation project(':react-native-scratch')
    implementation project(':@react-native-community_async-storage')
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:15.0.2'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:15.0.2'
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:15.0.1'
    implementation "androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1"
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.0.0'
    implementation('org.conscrypt:conscrypt-android:2.0.0')
    compile project(':RNMail')
    implementation project(':react-native-google-signin')
        implementation project(':react-native-datetimepicker')
        compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
}

// Run this once to be able to run the application with BUCK
// puts all compile dependencies into folder libs for BUCK to use
task copyDownloadableDepsToLibs(type: Copy) {
    from configurations.compile
    into 'libs'
}

apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'
// Work around
com.google.gms.googleservices.GoogleServicesPlugin.config.disableVersionCheck = true

apply from: file("../../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-android/native_modules.gradle"); applyNativeModulesAppBuildGradle(project)

React Native version:

Run react-native info in your terminal and copy the results here.

Steps To Reproduce

Provide a detailed list of steps that reproduce the issue.

Follow the steps right here: https://github.com/clytras/react-native-fresco
Build android

Expected Results

Expect my android code to compile correctly

facebook / react-native