Enable Multidex support #344

rosen-vladimirov · 2016-01-27T11:33:20Z

The problem

In case the application is using a lot of plugins and compile dependencies, the dexing may fail with

Output: UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION: com.android.dex.DexIndexOverflowException: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536 at ...

It turns out this is Android limitation:

Android application (APK) files contain executable bytecode files in 
the form of Dalvik Executable (DEX) files, 
which contain the compiled code used to run your app. 
The Dalvik Executable specification limits the total number 
of methods that can be referenced within a single DEX file to 65,536, 
including Android framework methods, 
library methods, and methods in your own code.

Android way to fix this

In order to overcome this limitation, here's the official guide how to support multidexing:
https://developer.android.com/tools/building/multidex.html
The idea is to add the following to build.gradle:

android {
    defaultConfig {
        // Enabling multidex support.
        multiDexEnabled true
    }
}

dependencies {
  compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.0'
}

Also some changes must be applied in AndoridManifest.xml OR our own NativeScriptApplication class:

modifying default AndroidManifest.xml requires changing the application name:

 <application
        ...
        android:name="android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication">
        ...
    </application>

modifying NativeScriptApplication - in attachBaseContext() method call

MultiDex.install(this);

Possible way to handle this

Maybe NativeScript CLI can pass some flag to build.gradle and based on it we can enable multidexing and call MultiDex.install(this);

rosen-vladimirov · 2016-02-02T10:09:55Z

The issue has really high priority as the following steps lead to dex errors:

$ tns create myApp
$ cd myApp
$ tns plugin add nativescript-push-notifications
$ tns plugin add nativescript-telerik-ui
$ tns build android

As we are expecting the customers to use these two plugins a lot, can we raise the priority of this issue. Is there a workaround?

rosen-vladimirov · 2016-02-02T15:56:45Z

Ok, the problem is caused by the google play services compile dependency. The workaround is to compile only part of it (this should be done in the plugins that add this dependency).
More information can be found in this article
https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup#split

dapriett · 2016-02-03T03:57:36Z

There is an issue with my nativescript-google-maps-sdk - not sure if it's related dapriett/nativescript-google-maps-sdk#7

The map shows up blank on Android 4.2.2, only thing odd I seem to find in the Android logs are messages like this:

02-02 10:13:32.381: E/dalvikvm(3390): Could not find class 'android.app.AppOpsManager', referenced from method com.google.android.gms.common.zze.zzb
02-02 10:13:32.393: E/dalvikvm(3390): Could not find class 'android.app.AppOpsManager', referenced from method com.google.android.gms.common.nb.a
02-02 10:13:32.429: E/dalvikvm(3390): Could not find class 'android.app.AppOpsManager', referenced from method com.google.android.gms.common.mw.a

The plugin already limits the dependencies to only com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps within google play services. Wondering if multidex will resolve this.

Plamen5kov · 2016-04-21T13:00:54Z

This feature will be enabled for use in android-runtime 2.0, because you will be able not only the AndroidManifest.xml, and the build.gradle but the onCreate logic.
If you want to use multidex you need to follow the steps described in the issue description.

dapriett · 2016-04-27T03:39:25Z

How could I test this out with dapriett/nativescript-google-maps-sdk#7 ? Any examples with multidex support?

Plamen5kov · 2016-04-27T05:20:28Z

@dapriett not yet, but i'll write an article or documentation, that explains all possibilities that come thanks to the static binding generator and how to utilize them.

Plamen5kov added the feature label Jan 28, 2016

rosen-vladimirov mentioned this issue Feb 2, 2016

Push-Plugin 0.0.13 & Telerik-UI-Plugin 0.2.3 NativeScript/nativescript-cli#1434

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Plamen5kov mentioned this issue Feb 25, 2016

The app referencing is getting huge, Android and iOS NativeScript/nativescript-cli#1542

Closed

dapriett mentioned this issue Mar 16, 2016

Could not find class 'android.app.AppOpsManager' with Android 4.2.2 #384

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Plamen5kov changed the title ~~Multidex support~~ Enable Multidex support Apr 21, 2016

Plamen5kov closed this Apr 21, 2016

dapriett mentioned this issue Apr 21, 2016

blank with android 4.2.2 dapriett/nativescript-google-maps-sdk#7

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EddyVerbruggen mentioned this issue Jun 3, 2016

Build failed on NativeScript 2.0.1 EddyVerbruggen/nativescript-plugin-firebase#41

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jiwonyune mentioned this issue Jun 22, 2016

:transformClassesWithDexForF0F1F2Debug FAILED EddyVerbruggen/nativescript-plugin-firebase#62

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tebanep mentioned this issue Aug 4, 2017

Conflict with Nativescript-barcodeScanner NathanaelA/nativescript-zxing#4

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Enable Multidex support #344

Enable Multidex support #344

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Enable Multidex support #344

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rosen-vladimirov commented Jan 27, 2016

The problem

Android way to fix this

Possible way to handle this

rosen-vladimirov commented Feb 2, 2016

rosen-vladimirov commented Feb 2, 2016

dapriett commented Feb 3, 2016

Plamen5kov commented Apr 21, 2016

dapriett commented Apr 27, 2016

Plamen5kov commented Apr 27, 2016 • edited

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