NoClassDefFoundError after AndroidStudio upgrade to 1.0 (December 8th)

Question

with previous versions of Android Studio working properly with Release Candidate 4 (December 4th) or newer:

FATAL EXCEPTION: main

 java.lang.NoClassDefFoun         


        

Answer 1

This has nothing to do with gradle. It's an update for Google Play Services. The LocationClient class has been replaced with the new FusedLocationProviderApi.

Check this answer: Android play services 6.5: LocationClient is missing