How to enable multidexing with the new Android Multidex support library

Question

I want to use the new Multidex support library to break the method limit for one of my apps.

With Android Lollipop Google introduced a multidex support library that

Answer 1

If you want to enable multi-dex in your project then just go to gradle.builder

and add this in your dependencie

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

then you have to add

 defaultConfig {
...
minSdkVersion 14
targetSdkVersion 21
...

// Enabling multidex support.
multiDexEnabled true}

Then open a class and extand it to Application If your app uses extends the Application class, you can override the oncrete() method and call

   MultiDex.install(this) 

to enable multidex.

and finally add into your manifest

 
 
    
   ...