MultiDex Support with Incremental Dexing support

[Adrian]

Are there any plans in the future to somehow combine the two? I understand why they are mutually exclusive but for dev time, my build time goes from around 20-30 seconds to a minute plus now when using the multi-dex option. I don't mind using the multi-dex options for a release build but for developing it's quite an annoying wait each time.

[Xavier Ducrohet]

We are preparing a blog post to explain a few things, but the gist of it is that you can create a variant that's minSdkVersion 21+ and this variant will be be able to build faster because it doesn't have to compute the list of classes to put in the main dex file. It'll do pre-dexing and won't combine each dex file together so it's faster.

Of course, this means you need to test on a 21+ device/emulator.

Look at the multiDex sample, build the "ics" and "lollipop" variants and see how the tasks differ.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Adrian <amch...@gmail.com> wrote:

Are there any plans in the future to somehow combine the two? I understand why they are mutually exclusive but for dev time, my build time goes from around 20-30 seconds to a minute plus now when using the multi-dex option. I don't mind using the multi-dex options for a release build but for developing it's quite an annoying wait each time.

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[Adrian Chang]

Alright thank you will give it a shot.

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[Felipe Lima]

Xavier, where can I find these samples? I don't see any for the API 21 SDK.

Thanks

[Xavier Ducrohet]

Our samples are always at the bottom of this page http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system

We also now have some official documentation here: http://developer.android.com/tools/building/multidex.html