Android Question Is it possible to get around the "Too many method references" problem yet

[Brian Robinson]

Hi All,

I am getting this error again after excluding what Erel suggested on Google Play Services .Jar file.

B4A version: 5.80
Parsing code. (0.11s)
Compiling code. (0.35s)
Compiling layouts code. (0.02s)
Generating R file. (0.67s)
Compiling generated Java code. (3.02s)
Convert byte code - optimized dex. Error
trouble writing output: Too many method references: 73236; max is 65536.
You may try using --multi-dex option.

The problem is that I have tried to integrate Appodeal into my app, which uses a lot of libraries from all the big Ad networks.

I did manage to exclude enough to get it down below the threshold (Excluding Amazon adverts was a big one), which I guess is a good thing as it tightens up the final .APK file, but I am wondering whether we will get to the stage of actually requiring that many method calls? After all, maybe I would like to display ads from Amazon.

Any thoughts?

Brian

 

[DonManfred]

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/new-feature-three-birds-with-one-stone.63127/

You need to update to B4A 5.8 to use this

 

[Brian Robinson]

Hi DonManfred,

Thanks for your reply. I have upgraded to 5.8 as you can see at the top of my post where the output of the build is.

As I said, I managed to exclude enough classes to bring it down to below the level, but I do wonder if anyone has hit that limit, and found another way around it?

My exclusion list looks like this:

    #ExcludeClasses: .games, .drive, .fitness, .wearable, .measurement, .cast, .auth, .nearby, com.amazon.device.ads
#ExcludeClasses: .tagmanager, .analytics, .wallet, .plus, .vision, .gcm, ru.mail, com.facebook, android.support.v4.media.session

Cheers
Brian

 

[Erel]

You can most probably further optimize it if needed.

 

[johndb]

Hi DonManfred,

Thanks for your reply. I have upgraded to 5.8 as you can see at the top of my post where the output of the build is.

As I said, I managed to exclude enough classes to bring it down to below the level, but I do wonder if anyone has hit that limit, and found another way around it?

My exclusion list looks like this:

    #ExcludeClasses: .games, .drive, .fitness, .wearable, .measurement, .cast, .auth, .nearby, com.amazon.device.ads
#ExcludeClasses: .tagmanager, .analytics, .wallet, .plus, .vision, .gcm, ru.mail, com.facebook, android.support.v4.media.session

Cheers
Brian

I also hit the limit on 2 of my largest projects but was able to reduce the limit by excluding the google classes as you had done. I hope I don't exceed the limit again

John