Android 64k method limit error on 56k methods

Question

I'm receiving this error in my android project:

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

From all my research it's due to having too many methods in my android project - limit is 64k. However I have run scripts to count how many is currently in the project and it is coming up with 56k methods. Here is the script I am running.

The only addition to my project is that I have updated Parse from 1.4 to 1.7.

The project built and compiled after updating parse, but when I try to add any new code this error appears.

I was using Android Studio 0.8.9 when I first encountered this error. I have reverted back to Android Studio 0.8.6 and it is still occurring.

Answer 1

I resolved this issue with this code, my problem is that google play services push my app over the limit. This removes the google play services that you app does not need. Put it at the bottom of your gradle build file

def toCamelCase(String string) {
String result = ""
string.findAll("[^\\W]+") { String word ->
    result += word.capitalize()
}
return result
}

afterEvaluate { project ->
    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 ->
                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') && it.name.endsWith('Dependencies') }.each { Task task ->
    task.dependsOn stripPlayServices
}
}