As indicated in the page on tools.android.com: "Note: this applies only to the javac/dx code path. Jack does not use this API at the moment."
There is no way to do transforms when using Jack. You'd have to manually hook into the output of jack to do something, which will be fragile. The presence of the DEX content type is mostly because dexing is now done through a transform internally, so that transform needs to declare its output as DEX. I would like to make this enum value private only and not part of the API :\ On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Ariel Cattan <[email protected]> wrote: > In that case how do you recommend to do Dex transformations, if not > post-jack? > When using the Transform API with ContentType.DEX - when does this run? > Doesn't it run after Jack? > Ariel > > On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 9:52:51 AM UTC+3, Xavier Ducrohet wrote: >> >> Jack already handles multi-dexing both natively and for legacy mode. >> There's nothing to do manually. >> >> Doing post-jack transformation would be error prone as you could add >> methods that would break the computation of the multi-dex. >> >> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Ariel Cattan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I see. Can we at least count on Jack generating the file that contains >>> the list of all classes that must go into the main dex file? >>> We can then do Dex transformations, but still rely on the list of >>> classes in that file. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ariel >>> >>> On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 1:18:02 AM UTC+3, Xavier Ducrohet wrote: >>>> >>>> There's no current plan to do this directly in the dex format. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Ariel Cattan <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey guys, >>>>> >>>>> I was wondering whether as part of the Transform API in the Android >>>>> Gradle plugin 1.4.0-beta2, there was any intention of providing some tools >>>>> to handle multidex. >>>>> To elaborate - since the Transform API allows requesting and >>>>> performing Dex transformations, and since eventually I assume most >>>>> developers will want to use Jack to speed up their build times, it leads >>>>> to >>>>> favouring Dex transformations over Java class transformations. This >>>>> imposes >>>>> one problem - handling multidex, i.e. analyzing and deciding which classes >>>>> should reside in the main dex file. >>>>> Are there any plans to convert the existing Android tool >>>>> (MainDexClasses) to a tool that can provide the same functionality over >>>>> dex >>>>> files? >>>>> It would be awesome if we could perform dex transformations without >>>>> worrying about which class resides in which dex file, and have the Android >>>>> build system adjust it after the transformation. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks :-) >>>>> Ariel Cattan >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "adt-dev" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Xavier Ducrohet >>>> Android SDK Tech Lead >>>> Google Inc. >>>> http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com >>>> >>>> Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "adt-dev" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Xavier Ducrohet >> Android SDK Tech Lead >> Google Inc. >> http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com >> >> Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "adt-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android SDK Tech Lead Google Inc. http://developer.android.com | http://tools.android.com Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "adt-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
