DexException: Too many classes in --main-dex-list, main dex capacity exceeded

[Brian Parma]

I recently discovered the 'Scala on Android' option for android apps and have been working on a test app in scala.  I am use to using AndroidStudio with Gradle, so I setup the latest AndroidStudio to use the gradle-android-scala-plugin and scala 2.11.6 according to: https://github.com/saturday06/gradle-android-scala-plugin

This worked fine, but I would like to use Macroid, so I added the dependency in gradle:

compile 'org.macroid:macroid_2.11:2.0.0-M4'

This compiles fine in AndroidStudio but when I tried to run it (assembleDebug) I was getting the DexIndexException for too many methods.  I tried enabling MultiDex (according to their wiki and android docs), but this just gave me a new exception:

DexException: Too many classes in --main-dex-list, main dex capacity exceeded

my deps are: 
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.1.1'
    compile 'org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.11.6'
    compile 'org.macroid:macroid_2.11:2.0.0-M4'
    compile "com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1"

I can't find any information on this exception.  Has anyone seen it?  Has anyone got a configuration of Macroid + AndroidStudio + Gradle working?

Any help would be appreciated!
B

[Nick Stanchenko]

Hi Brian,

I’m not very familiar with the Gradle toolchain, so I’ve created issue there and linked to this thread: https://github.com/saturday06/gradle-android-scala-plugin/issues/60.

Hope that helps,

Nick