Unable to execute dex method ID not in 0 0xffff 65536

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I have seen various versions of the dex erros before  but this one is new  clean restart etc won t help  Library projects seems intact and dependency seems to be linked correctly    Unable to execute dex  method ID not in  0  0xffff   65536 Conversion to Dalvik format failed  Unable to execute dex  method ID not in  0  0xffff   65536   or   Cannot merge new index 65950 into a non-jumbo instruction   or   java util concurrent ExecutionException  com android dex DexIndexOverflowException  method ID not in  0  0xffff   65536   tl dr  Official solution from Google is finally here   http   developer android com tools building multidex html   Only one small tip  you will likely need to do this to prevent out of memory when doing dex-ing    dexOptions           javaMaxHeapSize  4g      There s also a jumbo mode that can fix this in a less reliable way    dexOptions           jumboMode true     Update  If your app is fat and you have too many methods inside your main app  you may need to re-org your app as per  http   blog osom info 2014 12 too-many-methods-in-main-dex html

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Update 3  11 3 2014  Google finally released official description     Update 2  10 31 2014  Gradle plugin v0 14 0 for Android adds support for multi-dex  To enable  you just have to declare it in build gradle   android      defaultConfig                   multiDexEnabled  true          If your application supports Android prior to 5 0  that is  if your minSdkVersion is 20 or below  you also have to dynamically patch the application ClassLoader  so it will be able to load classes from secondary dexes  Fortunately  there s a library that does that for you  Add it to your app s dependencies     dependencies           compile  com android support multidex 1 0 0       You need to call the ClassLoader patch code as soon as possible  MultiDexApplication class s documentation suggests three ways to do that  pick one of them  one that s most convenient for you      1 - Declare MultiDexApplication class as the application in your AndroidManifest xml      lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt manifest xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      package  com example android multidex myapplication  gt       lt application                     android name  android support multidex MultiDexApplication  gt                   lt  application gt   lt  manifest gt    2 - Have your Application class extend MultiDexApplication class   public class MyApplication extends MultiDexApplication          3 - Call MultiDex install from your Application attachBaseContext method   public class MyApplication       protected void attachBaseContext Context base            super attachBaseContext base           MultiDex install this                                     Update 1  10 17 2014   As anticipated  multidex support is shipped in revision 21 of Android Support Library  You can find the android-support-multidex jar in  sdk extras android support multidex library libs folder     Multi-dex support solves this problem  dx 1 8 already allows generating several dex files  Android L will support multi-dex natively  and next revision of support library is going to cover older releases back to API 4     It was stated in this Android Developers Backstage podcast episode by Anwar Ghuloum  I ve posted a transcript  and general multi-dex explanation  of the relevant part

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Faced the same problem and solved it by editing my build gradle file on the dependencies section  removing   compile  com google android gms play-services 7 8 0    And replacing it with   compile  com google android gms play-services-location 7 8 0  compile  com google android gms play-services-analytics 7 8 0

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Remove some jar file from Libs folder and copy to some other folder  And Go to  Project Properties   Select Java Build Path  Select Libraries  Select Add External Jar  Select the Removed jar to your project  Click save  this will be added under Referenced Library instead of Libs folder  Now clean and Run your project  You dont need to add Any code for MultDex  Its simply worked for me

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Your project is too large  You have too many methods  There can only be 65536 methods per application  see here https   code google com p android issues detail id 7147 c6

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I ve shared a sample project which solve this problem using custom rules xml build script and a few lines of code   I used it on my own project and it is runs flawless on 1M  devices  from android-8 to the latest android-19   Hope it helps   https   github com mmin18 Dex65536

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The below code helps  if you use Gradle   Allows you to easily remove unneeded Google services  presuming you re using them  to get back below the 65k threshold   All credit to this post  https   gist github com dmarcato d7c91b94214acd936e42  Edit 2014-10-22  There s been a lot of interesting discussion on the gist referenced above  TLDR  look at this one  https   gist github com Takhion 10a37046b9e6d259bb31  Paste this code at the bottom of your build gradle file and adjust the list of google services you do not need   def toCamelCase String string        String result          string findAll      W       String word - gt          result    word capitalize             return result    afterEvaluate   project - gt      Configuration runtimeConfiguration   project configurations getByName  compile       ResolutionResult resolution   runtimeConfiguration incoming resolutionResult        Forces resolve of configuration     ModuleVersionIdentifier module   resolution getAllComponents   find   it moduleVersion name equals  play-services     moduleVersion      String prepareTaskName    prepare  toCamelCase    module group    module name    module version    Library      File playServiceRootFolder   project tasks find   it name equals prepareTaskName    explodedDir      Task stripPlayServices   project tasks create name   stripPlayServices   group   Strip             inputs files new File playServiceRootFolder   classes jar           outputs dir playServiceRootFolder         description  Strip useless packages from Google Play Services library to avoid reaching dex limit           doLast               copy                   from file new File playServiceRootFolder   classes jar                     into file playServiceRootFolder                   rename   fileName - gt                      fileName    classes orig jar                                              tasks create name   stripPlayServices    module version  type  Jar                    destinationDir   playServiceRootFolder                 archiveName    classes jar                  from zipTree new File playServiceRootFolder   classes orig jar                           exclude  com google ads                         exclude  com google android gms analytics                         exclude  com google android gms games                         exclude  com google android gms plus                         exclude  com google android gms drive                         exclude  com google android gms ads                                     execute               delete file new File playServiceRootFolder   classes orig jar                         project tasks findAll   it name startsWith  prepare    amp  amp  it name endsWith  Dependencies     each   Task task - gt          task dependsOn stripPlayServices

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The perfect solution for this would be to work with Proguard  as aleb mentioned in the comment   It will decrease the size of the dex file by half

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gradle   proguard solution   afterEvaluate     tasks each       if  it name startsWith  proguard              it getInJarFilters   each   filter - gt              if  filter  amp  amp  filter  filter                      filter  filter     filter  filter                                 readme                               META-INF LICENSE                               META-INF LICENSE txt                               META-INF NOTICE                               META-INF NOTICE txt                               com google android gms ads                                  com google android gms cast                                  com google android gms games                                  com google android gms drive                                  com google android gms wallet                                  com google android gms wearable                                  com google android gms plus                                  com google android gms topmanager

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As already stated  you have too many methods  more than 65k  in your project and libs   Prevent the Problem  Reduce the number of methods with Play Services 6 5  and support-v4 24 2   Since often the Google Play services is one of the main suspects in  wasting  methods with its 20k  methods  Google Play services version 6 5 or later  it is possible for you to include Google Play services in your application using a number of smaller client libraries  For example  if you only need GCM and maps you can choose to use these dependencies only   dependencies       compile  com google android gms play-services-base 6 5        compile  com google android gms play-services-maps 6 5        The full list of sub libraries and it s responsibilities can be found in the official google doc   Update  Since Support Library v4 v24 2 0 it was split up into the following modules      support-compat  support-core-utils  support-core-ui  support-media-compat and support-fragment   dependencies       compile  com android support support-fragment 24 2        Do note however  if you use support-fragment  it will have dependencies to all the other modules  ie  if you use android support v4 app Fragment there is no benefit   See here the official release notes for support-v4 lib    Enable MultiDexing  Since Lollipop  aka build tools 21   it is very easy to handle  The approach is to work around the 65k methods per dex file problem to create multiple dex files for your app  Add the following to your gradle build file  this is taken from the official google doc on applications with more than 65k methods    android       compileSdkVersion 21     buildToolsVersion  21 1 0       defaultConfig                          Enabling multidex support          multiDexEnabled true                  dependencies     compile  com android support multidex 1 0 1      The second step is to either prepare your Application class or if you don t extend Application use the MultiDexApplication in your Android Manifest   Either add this to your Application java   Override   protected void attachBaseContext Context base        super attachBaseContext base       MultiDex install this         or use the provided application from the mutlidex lib   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt manifest xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      package  com example android myapplication  gt       lt application                     android name  android support multidex MultiDexApplication  gt                   lt  application gt   lt  manifest gt      Prevent OutOfMemory with MultiDex  As further tip  if you run into OutOfMemory exceptions during the build phase you could enlarge the heap with  android               dexOptions           javaMaxHeapSize  4g            which would set the heap to 4 gigabytes   See this question for more detail on the dex heap memory issue     Analyze the source of the Problem  To analyze the source of the methods the gradle plugin  https   github com KeepSafe dexcount-gradle-plugin can help in combination with the dependency tree provided by gradle with e g     gradlew app dependencies   See this answer and question for more information on method count in android

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Try adding below code in build gradle  it worked for me -  compileSdkVersion 23 buildToolsVersion  23 0 1  defaultConfig       multiDexEnabled true

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You can analyse problem  dex file references  using Android Studio   Build -  Analyse APK     On the result panel click on classes dex  file  And you ll see

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I was facing the same issue today what worked for is below down  For ANDROID STUDIO    Enable Instant Run  In File- Preferences- Build  Execution  Deployment- Instant Run-  Check Enable Instant run for hot swap     Hope it helps

[android] Unable to execute dex: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536

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