How to determine application's method count?

Question

I'm encountering issues with my application having too many methods.

In the last post in the below link, a poster posts the method count for his application (broken down by package). I unable to find how I can get this information for my application, any suggestions?

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20814

Answer 1

I use

cat build/dex/debug/classes.dex | head -c 92 | tail -c 4 | hexdump -e '1/4 "%d\n"'

I get 55176. 64k limit is coming :D

Answer 2

To get a method-count report on every build, do this:

in app/build.gradle:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral() // or jcenter()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.getkeepsafe.dexcount:dexcount-gradle-plugin:0.7.3'
    }
}

// make sure this line comes *after* you apply the Android plugin
apply plugin: 'com.getkeepsafe.dexcount'

It will show the number of methods per package, for your own project and the libraries you use.

From: https://github.com/KeepSafe/dexcount-gradle-plugin