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Jose Gonzalez
Jose Gonzalez

Reputation: 1478

Skip 64k limitation Android while testing

Is there some workaround to skip the 64k method limitation while testing my Android app in the emulator?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 235

Answers (3)

Ori Lentz
Ori Lentz

Reputation: 3688

You could use proguard and try to shrink your code. This would be the preferred option.

Otherwise, make it multidex (but I don't see how it'll be "just for testing" unless you still shrink your code before deploying it).

You can achieve that by one of the three easy ways:

  1. If you have an application class, simply make it extend MultidexApplication (rather than simply Application).
  2. If you don't have an application class, you can add the android:name="android.support.multidex.MultidexApplication" attribute to your application tag in AndroidManifest.xml

  3. If you have an application class but can't override MutlidexApplication (because you're not overriding Application to begin with but some other custom application class), add the following override:

    @Override
protected void attachBaseContext(Context context) {
     super(context);
     Multidex.install(this);
}

[if you are supporting API levels lower than 21, you'll need to add the android-support-multidex.jar dependency to your project. It can be found under the extras folder in the android-sdk directory]

Upvotes: 3

Daniel Juric
Daniel Juric

Reputation: 148

The Limit is 64 x 1024 = 65.536 Methods. That means 64K Methods. You can't change this maximum, but you can shrink the libraris. All you need to do is to shorten the librarys like this:

Bad:

compile 'com.google:9.6.1'

better:

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.6.1'

Upvotes: 0

dabluck
dabluck

Reputation: 1181

there is no workaround beyond proguard stripping off enough to get you below the limit if you're lucky. just implement multidex. it's very easy now.

Upvotes: 1

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