Trying to add MultiDex support - cannot find symbol context and MultiDex

Question

After following the instructions mentioned at: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/multidex.html#mdex-gradle

I am getting an error cannot find symbol

Answer 1

For those who get cannot find symbol error, the following is stated in the official android developer documents:

If your minSdkVersion is 21 or higher multidex is enabled by default, and you do not need the multidex support library.