Let’s first understand the problem: On pre-Lollipop devices, only main dex is being loaded by the framework. To support multi-dex applications you have to explicitly patch application class loader with all the secondary dex files (this is why your Application class have to extend MultiDexApplication class or call MultiDex#install). This means that your application’s main … Read more
No need to downgrade the build tools back to 18.1.11, this issue is fixed with build tools 19.0.1. If you can’t use 19.0.1 for some reason then: Make sure that the value of android:targetSdkVersion in AndroidManifest.xml matches target=android-<value> in project.properties. If these two values are not the same, building with build tools version 19.0.0 will … Read more
It looks like Google has finally implementing a workaround/fix for surpassing the 65K method limit of dex files. About the 65K Reference Limit Android application (APK) files contain executable bytecode files in the form of Dalvik Executable (DEX) files, which contain the compiled code used to run your app. The Dalvik Executable specification limits the … Read more
First, an apk file is just a modified jar file. So the real question is can they decompile the dex files inside. The answer is sort of. There are already disassemblers, such as dedexer and smali. You can expect these to only get better, and theoretically it should eventually be possible to decompile to actual … Read more
It’s easy Get these tools: dex2jar to translate dex files to jar files jd-gui to view the java files in the jar The source code is quite readable as dex2jar makes some optimizations. Procedure: And here’s the procedure on how to decompile: Step 1: Convert classes.dex in test_apk-debug.apk to test_apk-debug_dex2jar.jar d2j-dex2jar.sh -f -o output_jar.jar apk_to_decompile.apk … Read more
Unable to execute dex: Multiple dex files define Lcom/myapp/R$array;
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 … Read more
Unable to merge dex