Impact of using Multidex on app performance, stability, compatibility…?

Question

The next version of my app has roughly 70K methods.

Knowing the exact implications of using Multidex (which usually means using the Multidex support library to support A

Answer 1

I ended up going with multidex, essentially because the roadmap of my app would have forced me to do so eventually (as I'm planning to integrate big libraries in a near future).

It's been more than a month and hundreds of thousands of installs/updates of the multidexed APK, so I can now say with decent confidence that the move to multidex did not have any significant side effect, in my specific case.

(note: the update only targetted API 11+, so I cannot speak of potential problems with Android 2.x).