I've read a few answers on this site with the same or similar error messages, and I've tried all the solutions already. Sadly, none of them have worked so far.
My gradle files all look like they're properly set up for Multidex, the Application class extends MultiDexApplication and is referenced correctly in the manifest, I've cleaned all caches and restarted the IDE, deleting builds from the project and the device and re-building/re-installing, etc. etc.
Inspecting the APK, I found the Application in classes2.dex, correctly referencing .super Landroidx/multidex/MultiDexApplication;
The stack I'm getting is like this:
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.<REDACTED>, PID: 25475
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate application com.<REDACTED>.Application: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.<REDACTED>.Application" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/~~b-NK-x066lFdY_bh0tm6ew==/com.<REDACTED>-V2WCXZvYqUZRGKbFMfmgFg==/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/~~b-NK-x066lFdY_bh0tm6ew==/com.<REDACTED>-V2WCXZvYqUZRGKbFMfmgFg==/lib/arm64, /system/lib64, /system/system_ext/lib64]]
at android.app.LoadedApk.makeApplication(LoadedApk.java:1306)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleMakeApplication(ActivityThread.java:7401)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:7374)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:301)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2118)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:246)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8425)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:596)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1130)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "com.<REDACTED>.Application" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/~~b-NK-x066lFdY_bh0tm6ew==/com.<REDACTED>-V2WCXZvYqUZRGKbFMfmgFg==/base.apk"],nativeLibraryDirectories=[/data/app/~~b-NK-x066lFdY_bh0tm6ew==/com.<REDACTED>-V2WCXZvYqUZRGKbFMfmgFg==/lib/arm64, /system/lib64, /system/system_ext/lib64]]
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.findClass(BaseDexClassLoader.java:207)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:379)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:312)
at android.app.AppComponentFactory.instantiateApplication(AppComponentFactory.java:76)
at android.app.Instrumentation.newApplication(Instrumentation.java:1158)
at android.app.LoadedApk.makeApplication(LoadedApk.java:1298)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleMakeApplication(ActivityThread.java:7401)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:7374)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:301)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2118)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:246)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8425)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:596)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1130)
Suppressed: java.io.IOException: Failed to open dex files from /data/app/~~b-NK-x066lFdY_bh0tm6ew==/com.<REDACTED>-V2WCXZvYqUZRGKbFMfmgFg==/base.apk because: Failure to verify dex file '/data/app/~~b-NK-x066lFdY_bh0tm6ew==/com.<REDACTED>-V2WCXZvYqUZRGKbFMfmgFg==/base.apk': Bad index for method_handle_item method_idx: ffff >= de57
at dalvik.system.DexFile.openDexFileNative(Native Method)
at dalvik.system.DexFile.openDexFile(DexFile.java:367)
at dalvik.system.DexFile.<init>(DexFile.java:109)
at dalvik.system.DexFile.<init>(DexFile.java:82)
at dalvik.system.DexPathList.loadDexFile(DexPathList.java:439)
at dalvik.system.DexPathList.makeDexElements(DexPathList.java:398)
at dalvik.system.DexPathList.<init>(DexPathList.java:166)
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.<init>(BaseDexClassLoader.java:129)
at dalvik.system.BaseDexClassLoader.<init>(BaseDexClassLoader.java:104)
at dalvik.system.PathClassLoader.<init>(PathClassLoader.java:74)
at com.android.internal.os.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(ClassLoaderFactory.java:87)
at com.android.internal.os.ClassLoaderFactory.createClassLoader(ClassLoaderFactory.java:116)
at android.app.ApplicationLoaders.getClassLoader(ApplicationLoaders.java:114)
at android.app.ApplicationLoaders.getClassLoaderWithSharedLibraries(ApplicationLoaders.java:60)
at android.app.LoadedApk.createOrUpdateClassLoaderLocked(LoadedApk.java:933)
at android.app.LoadedApk.getClassLoader(LoadedApk.java:990)
at android.app.LoadedApk.getResources(LoadedApk.java:1234)
at android.app.ContextImpl.createAppContext(ContextImpl.java:2788)
at android.app.ContextImpl.createAppContext(ContextImpl.java:2780)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:7263)
... 8 more
Can anyone figure out what this is all about?
In the module level build.gradle, we added these lines:
// Near the top
apply plugin: 'com.google.firebase.crashlytics'
// ...
android {
// ...
compileOptions {
sourceCompatibility 1.8
targetCompatibility 1.8
}
// ...
}
// ...
I have no idea how this fixed this crash, but I suppose that's what I get for using "It just works" libraries.