Multidex installation failure

Question

I'm using CircledImageView library. It works fine on lollipop+ android versions. But in kitkat it's crashing. So after searching on google. I found that i have to implement multidex in my app.

So this my application class.

public class FireApp extends Application {

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        Firebase.setAndroidContext(this);
        Fresco.initialize (this);
    }

    @Override
    protected void attachBaseContext(Context base) {
        super.attachBaseContext(base);
        MultiDex.install(this);
    }
}

And in build.gradle under defaultconfig MultiDexEnabled is true

multiDexEnabled true

But when I run the app, I get the following error.

java.lang.NoSuchFieldException: Field dexElementsSuppressedExceptions not found in class dalvik.system.PathClassLoader
 at android.support.multidex.MultiDex.findField(MultiDex.java:288)
 at android.support.multidex.MultiDex.access$300(MultiDex.java:57)
 at android.support.multidex.MultiDex$V19.install(MultiDex.java:390)
 at android.support.multidex.MultiDex$V19.access$000(MultiDex.java:369)
 at android.support.multidex.MultiDex.installSecondaryDexes(MultiDex.java:242)
 at android.support.multidex.MultiDex.install(MultiDex.java:161)
 at android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication.attachBaseContext(MultiDexApplication.java:39)
 at com.buckydroid.anonchat.FireApp.attachBaseContext(Unknown Source)
 at android.app.Application.attach(Application.java:182)
 at android.app.Instrumentation.newApplication(Instrumentation.java:991)
 at android.app.Instrumentation.newApplication(Instrumentation.java:975)
 at android.app.LoadedApk.makeApplication(LoadedApk.java:511)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4564)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:139)
 at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1353)
 at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
 at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:149)
 at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5268)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
 at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:793)
 at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:609)
 at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

Try including compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1' in your build.gradle file.

Answer 2

check following steps this steps

1) Add dependency in your build.gradle file :

compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.0'

2) Enable multidex and set heap size

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "your package name"
    minSdkVersion 19
    targetSdkVersion 23
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
    multiDexEnabled true
}

dexOptions {
    javaMaxHeapSize "4g"
}

3) In Application class add this

@Override
protected void attachBaseContext(Context base) {
    super.attachBaseContext(base);
    MultiDex.install(this);
}

4) Add this in your manifest in <application> tag :

android:name=".YourApplicationClassName"