Weird : UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION: Execution failed for task app:dexDebug

Question

I didn't implement new libs but this problem occured while coding :

Error:Execution failed for task ':app:dexDebug'.

com.android.ide.common.internal.LoggedErrorException: Failed to run command: C:\android-sdk\build-tools\21.1.1\dx.bat --dex --no-optimize --output F:\Android_Donbas\ReDonbasIDEANew\app\build\intermediates\dex\debug --input-list=F:\Android_Donbas\ReDonbasIDEANew\app\build\intermediates\tmp\dex\debug\inputList.txt Error Code: 2 Output: UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION: com.android.dex.DexIndexOverflowException: method ID not in [0, 0xffff]: 65536 at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger$6.updateIndex(DexMerger.java:502) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger$IdMerger.mergeSorted(DexMerger.java:277) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeMethodIds(DexMerger.java:491) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeDexes(DexMerger.java:168) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.merge(DexMerger.java:189) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.mergeLibraryDexBuffers(Main.java:454) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:302) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:245) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:214) at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:106)

my build.gradle :

 dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:21.0.3'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:6.5.87'
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.3'
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.3'
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.2.2'
    compile 'com.google.guava:guava:18.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:20.0.0'
    compile files('libs/android-async-http-1.4.6.jar')
    compile files('libs/AndroidSwipeLayout-v1.1.6.jar')
    compile files('libs/apache-mime4j-0.5.jar')
    compile files('libs/crashlytics.jar')
    compile files('libs/httpclient-4.2.1.jar')
    compile files('libs/httpcore-4.2.1.jar')
    compile files('libs/httpmime-4.2.1.jar')
    compile files('libs/nineoldandroids-2.4.0.jar')
    compile files('libs/ormlite-android-4.48.jar')
    compile files('libs/ormlite-core-4.48.jar')
    compile files('libs/ormlite-jdbc-4.48.jar')
    compile files('libs/osmdroid-android-4.2.jar')
    compile files('libs/slf4j-android-1.6.1-RC1.jar')
    compile files('libs/universal-image-loader-1.9.3.jar')
}



packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.t'
    }

Answer 1

You may have hit the 65k methods limit. To use Google Play Services with more granularity, follow this guide, you can use only the parts that you want. This will possibly fix your problem.

Answer 2

You can fix the limit issue by enabling multdex in your build.gradle by adding "multiDexEnabled true". For more information see http://android-developers.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/google-play-services-and-dex-method.html

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