.dex file exceeds 64k methods during signing

Question

I've just finished working on my android app and I run it in android studio emulator. It's fine and everything works well, but I have an issue - when I want to generate signed apk , I got these two errors and can't complete apk building process. I've tried a lot of things to solve these two errors that i got, but no result.

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Enable multidex, check this post. http://stackoverflow.com/a/27284064/3796083 — AndroidRuntimeException, Feb 18 '17 at 19:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '17 at 19:27

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You've hit the 64K method limit.

Check if you've added unnecessary dependencies, check your ProGuard configuration.

Follow the instructions from the documentation

answered Feb 18 '17 at 19:27

Ognian Gloushkov

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after i did these steps , i got more than 2 errors and they are deferent than what i got before ,.... – ops Feb 19 '17 at 09:46
after i did these steps , i got more than 2 errors and they are different than what i got before , https://www.photobox.co.uk/slideshow?album_id=4730712146 – ops Feb 19 '17 at 10:04

Atef Hares · Answer 2 · 2017-02-18T19:46:18.623

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Enable multiDex, do that in your build.gradle file, in defaultConfig block

And if your minSdkVersion < 21 then also add multidex support library in your dependencies block

android {

    defaultConfig {
        ...

        multiDexEnabled true // add this line

    }
    ...
}

dependencies {
   ...

  compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1' //If minSdkVersion < 21

}

edited Feb 18 '17 at 19:46

answered Feb 18 '17 at 19:34

Atef Hares

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we don't know if OP is running `minSdkVersion >= 21` – Ognian Gloushkov Feb 18 '17 at 19:39
@OgnianGloushkov Please explain more, this has always fixed the issue for me, even if my `minSdkVersion was < 21` – Atef Hares Feb 18 '17 at 19:44
By the time of my comment you didn't include `compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1'` – Ognian Gloushkov Feb 18 '17 at 20:44

.dex file exceeds 64k methods during signing

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