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The default behaviour of gradle when encountering a transitive dependency which is the same as an explicit dependency, but where the transitive dependency has a higher version, is to bump the depdendency which was explicitly added. This meant that the addition of the bottom navigation library implicitly bumped our support lib to 25.3.0 due to its dependence on it. The options are: * Change the 3rd party lib to support 25.2.0 instead of 25.3.0. * Explicitly exclude the transitive support lib dependency in our build script (what we have done in the past, e.g. with acra). * Bump our explicit dependency. Given the nature of the changes from 25.2.0 and 25.3.0, it seemed like it was simplest to bump our dep. However, there is a bug https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=251302 which causes a function we depend on in SwitchCompat to require API 14. Therefore, this change excludes the 25.3.0 transitive dependencies, allowing our 25.2.0 dep to get used. In the process, I've noted that there were a few places we opted for excluding the transitive dependency in the past. These have now been removed because we have a higher version than they do, and thus they will no longer drag our old version forward.
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