Enabling MultiDex Support in Android to achieve 65K+ methods in Eclipse

Question

I am trying to build Multidex apk in eclipse, and not able to succeed.

I tried following steps, for configuring Multidex support in android app:

1. I have added the Multidex library located at /extras/android/support/multidex/ to my project.
2. As my app is having custom application class, I have extended android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication Class to my application.

Still i am not able to build apk.

Android developer is also not having any documentation for building Multidex apk in eclipse, its only having documentation for gradle and Android Studio.

Answer 1

You have to modify build.gradle to add multiDexEnabled true under buildconfig, buildType or productFlavour sections

defaultConfig {
    // The support library goes as back as Android-14, and is not required for 21+
    minSdkVersion 14 

    // Enabling multidex support.
    multiDexEnabled true
}

If you're building on old Ant, this is a blocking problem so you'll have to move to gradle or maven or use the old cumbersome solution

http://android-developers.blogspot.com.es/2011/07/custom-class-loading-in-dalvik.html