Apps 65k Limitation and how-to MultiDex?

[ac4android]

Hi.

On building the gradle to run the app, I am starting to log a lot of errors. After commenting out downstream Intent(someactivity, some.class), I was able to narrow it down to what seems to be caused by a 65k limitation. But I'm still getting the dalvik-error! The codes can only grow further.

How do I move forward?

UPDATE: the AVD complains about running out of space and the app might not load, but then the app does run !?!

Logcat
=====
E/Trace: error opening trace file: No such file or directory (2)
E/dalvikvm: Could not find class 'android.app.AppOpsManager', referenced from method com.google.android.gms.common.zze.zzb

Updated my build.gradle with MultiDex
============================
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
android {
compileSdkVersion 23
buildToolsVersion "23.0.2"

defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.myproject.android101"
minSdkVersion 17
targetSdkVersion 21
versionCode 1
versionName "1.0"


multiDexEnabled true


}
buildTypes {
release {
minifyEnabled false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
}
}
}
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.2.0'
compile 'com.android.support:design:23.2.0'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.2.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gmslay-services-plus:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gmslay-services:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gmslay-services-maps:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gmslay-services-ads:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gmslay-services-identity:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gmslay-services-gcm:8.4.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gmslay-services-analytics:8.4.0'

compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1'

}

Inserted MultiDex into my AndroidManifest
==============================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.myproject.android101">

etc...
lots of XML
etc...

<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@Mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="@String/app_name"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="@Style/AppTheme"
android:name="android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication" >




Inserted into MainActivity.class
======================

public class TopLevelActivity extends Activity {

    [USER=1021285]@override[/USER]
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_top_level);
        // We need an OnItemClickListener for the array options in top level XML
        AdapterView.OnItemClickListener itemClickListener = new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener(){
            // we have to create the onItemClick method ourself
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> listView,
                                    View v,
                                    int position,
                                    long id) {
                if (position == 0) {
                    Intent intent = new Intent(TopLevelActivity.this, SomeActivity.class);
                    startActivity(intent);
                }
            }
        };
        // Instantiate a list view to display the list options using the layout in the XML file
        ListView listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.list_options);
        // ...then plug the listener into the list view
        listView.setOnItemClickListener(itemClickListener);
    }
    // Use multidex to overcome the 65k limit, NB will only work with version# > 14
    public void attachBaseContext(Context newBase) {
        super.attachBaseContext(newBase);
        MultiDex.install(this);
    }

}

 

[Brinkkemper]

remove this line:

compile 'com.google.android.gmslay-services:8.4.0'
(this compiles ALL services into your project. only use the parts you need.)

also, put multiDexEnabled back to false You really don't want to use it

and do a "clean project".
and your good to go