Any update on this issue? I there a workaround at all? I am experiencing severe DEX limitations in my project because of this.
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 1:56:16 PM UTC-4, Jeff Campbell wrote: > > The latest version and the Google Play Services (4.3) now adds about 2,500 > more methods (since 4.2)!! (Adding Google Play Services to your project > will add about 14,000 methods to your app).... seems to be getting worse > and worse! > > On Friday, February 7, 2014 2:14:50 PM UTC-7, Jeff Campbell wrote: >> >> We have an app that depends on a lot of libraries, and recently we wanted >> to integrate Google Maps into our application. We learned that we would >> have to add the following dependency to our app: >> >> compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:4.1.32' >> >> Before adding this dependeny, our app had about a 40k method count. >> After adding this dependency our method count jumped to about 50k (about >> 10k methods added to our apk!). And, it seems that with every new version >> of this dependency it grows more and more (we noticed about a 2k growth in >> the last update). >> >> I know that this dependency contains a LOT of different types of services >> which include things we don't even use (which all contribute to the 10k >> method count). I know that I can use Proguard to strip out un-needed >> methods, but in a development environment this just slows down build time, >> and can make debugging issues difficult. >> >> Could the Google Play Services be divided into seperate aar projects? >> Example: >> >> play-services-core (required by all... assuming that there is some shared >> code) >> play-services-maps >> play-services-games >> play-services-ads >> play-services-plus >> play-services-wallet >> etc.... >> >> Doing this would reduce the risk of apps hitting the 65k method limit cap >> (seems crazy that a Google library takes 15% of the 65k limit of any single >> app) >> >> Thanks, >> Jeff >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
