installation failed since the device possibly has stale dexed jars that don't match the current version (dexopt error)

Question

I am unable to run app from android studio to my samsumg phone running android 2.3.6. I am getting Application installation Failed popup refer below screenshot.

when I click on OK I get below error in log

Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT] DEVICE SHELL COMMAND: pm uninstall my.package.name Unknown failure 

I got in this trouble after adding Google Cloud Module called "App Engine Backend with Google Cloud Messaging".

This is exactly same problem described in one of stack overflow questions here

I tried the accepted answer.

Ran dex-method-counts application I got "Overall method count: 24474" in terminal. I dont understand what to do next?

(Note : The same application is running on my other device running on kitkat.)

Please help to resolve this issue. I am struggling from past two days. I know there are many similar questions but nothing helped me.

Built--> Clean is not working.

Here is my build.gradle file

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'  android {     compileSdkVersion 21     buildToolsVersion "21.1.2"      defaultConfig {         applicationId "my.package.name"         minSdkVersion 9         targetSdkVersion 19         compileOptions {             sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7             targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7         }     }      buildTypes {         release {             minifyEnabled true             proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'         }     } }   dependencies {     compile files('libs/libGoogleAnalyticsServices.jar')     compile project(path: ':gcmAppEngineBackend', configuration: 'android-endpoints')     compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:22.0.0'     compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.0.0'     compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:7.0.0'  } 

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

This usually happens because your device doesn't have enough space in memory.

Delete some apps and try again