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Syed Ali
Syed Ali

Reputation: 1897

Multidex App not working on Android 2.3.6

Recently I had to enable multidex support for our app as it failed to either install or crash on start on a number of devices running older versions of Android. After that was enabled the app managed to install, with some tweaking, on most Android versions except for 2.3.6 where it gives the following message:

Cannot Download - The content is not supported on this phone

I am unable to test this as I don't have a device running 2.3.6 and also Android Studio does not provide an emulator for this version. I would appreciate if someone tells me what is going on with the app on Android 2.3.6 - i.e. why is not supported where as the app runs fine on other lower version like 2.3.3 and 2.2 etc.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1033

Answers (1)

Derek Fung
Derek Fung

Reputation: 8211

Actually this is mentioned in the official page, where it could have problem before Android 4.0 (API level 14)

https://developer.android.com/tools/building/multidex.html#limitations

Here are 2 main issues related to platform version

Applications that use multidex may not start on devices that run versions of the platform earlier than Android 4.0 (API level 14) due to a Dalvik linearAlloc bug (Issue 22586). If you are targeting API levels earlier than 14, make sure to perform testing with these versions of the platform as your application can have issues at startup or when particular groups of classes are loaded. Code shrinking can reduce or possibly eliminate these potential issues.

Applications using a multidex configuration that make very large memory allocation requests may crash during run time due to a Dalvik linearAlloc limit (Issue 78035). The allocation limit was increased in Android 4.0 (API level 14), but apps may still run into this limit on Android versions prior to Android 5.0 (API level 21).

Upvotes: 2

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