将Google Play服务更新为8.1.0后，Android studio / Gradle项目无法构建

Question

As the title says, my Android studio/Gradle fails to build after updating Google Play Services to 8.1.0 (from 7.8.0). Reverting back works fine. Here is the relevant part of my build.gradle:

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:8.1.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:8.1.0'
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:8.1.0'

UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION: com.android.dex.DexIndexOverflowException: Cannot merge new index 65685 into a non-jumbo instruction! at com.android.dx.merge.InstructionTransformer.jumboCheck(InstructionTransformer.java:109) at com.android.dx.merge.InstructionTransformer.access$800(InstructionTransformer.java:26) at com.android.dx.merge.InstructionTransformer$StringVisitor.visit(InstructionTransformer.java:72) at com.android.dx.io.CodeReader.callVisit(CodeReader.java:114) at com.android.dx.io.CodeReader.visitAll(CodeReader.java:89) at com.android.dx.merge.InstructionTransformer.transform(InstructionTransformer.java:49) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.transformCode(DexMerger.java:842) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.transformMethods(DexMerger.java:813) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.transformClassData(DexMerger.java:786) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.transformClassDef(DexMerger.java:682) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeClassDefs(DexMerger.java:542) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeDexes(DexMerger.java:171) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.merge(DexMerger.java:189) at com.android.dx.command.dex er.Main.mergeLibraryDexBuffers(Main.java:502) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:334) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:277) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:245) at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:106) Error:Execution failed for task ':app:dexDebug'. com.android.ide.common.process.ProcessException: org.gradle.process.internal.ExecException: Process 'command 'C:...\\Java\\jdk1.7.0_79\\bin\\java.exe'' finished with non-zero exit value 2

Thanks

Answer 1

You may try including multidex enable true in your gradle file as follows:

android {
compileSdkVersion 22
buildToolsVersion "23.0.0"

 defaultConfig {
     minSdkVersion 14 //lower than 14 doesn't support multidex
     targetSdkVersion 22

     // Enabling multidex support.
     multiDexEnabled true
 }
}