I was wondering what all the fuss was over the Dex limit, till I included Google Play Services.
Right away, I got the dreaded error: Conversion to Dalvik format failed: Unable to execute dex: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536 So now I am referring to the official guide: Building Apps with Over 65K Methods: https://developer.android.com/tools/building/multidex.html It says, I think, that on Android 5.0 I will be fine. Good so far. On pre 5.0, use the multidex support library. Okay, so I included android-support-multidex.jar in libs folder. The next section is Configuring Your App for Multidex with Gradle Hmm, no section for Configuring Your App for Multidex with ADT/Eclipse They weren't kidding about dropping support for ADT like a rock. A colleague found this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13439882/android-error-in-eclipse-unable-to-execute-dex-cannot-merge-new-index-65799-i Suggesting that we should use dex.force.jumbo=true in each project.properties. It seemed to work for him I don't know if this applies to the android libraries like appcompat and Google Play Services. I tried it. Didn't help. Still getting this when I try to debug: Conversion to Dalvik format failed: Unable to execute dex: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536 Saw this article too: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/12/google-play-services-and-dex-method.html Hmm, these instructions are also only for Gradle. No way to do it in ADT? So my questions are: *Can I get around this in ADT/Eclipse or should I speed up the migration to Android Studio. ? * I see this note at the bottom: *Note:* Use of multidex for creating a test APK is not currently supported Does this mean no more debugging my code? Just ship it to Google Play and hope for the best? We are all Klingon warriors now - we do not debug - our software does not coddle the weak. ;) Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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.
