APK size is about 10-14MB but a lot of that is resources and useless
resources pulled in from other libraries that still need to be
purged.  The dex file is 8MB uncompressed.

Would people find this a reasonable feature to add to dx?  In order to
help with scope issues as their projects get larger and larger.



On Sep 25, 12:56 am, Ryan Mattison <rmattis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No idea, but what is the APK file size?
>
> On Sep 24, 10:46 am, gbear <chris.regni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a way to merge multiple dex
> > files into one.  Or if anyone can point me in the proper direction (or
> > am I just going to have to write the tool myself?)
>
> > Use case:
> > I have a very large app that I'm trying to put on android.  We're
> > talking about tens of thousands of classes here.
> > The app is split up into multiple components/projects/libraries.
> > The build time for this is horrendous thanks to the conversion to dex!
> > Anywhere from 5-10 mins on a dual core 3ghz with 4 gigs of ram.
> > Debugging and one line changes are becoming a nightmare!
> > There's obviously no need to build most of the libraries every time.
> > So I'd like to only build the ones that have changed, and then merge
> > all the separate dex files.
>
> > Any help would be appreciated!
> > Thanks

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