Trying to add MultiDex support - cannot find symbol context and MultiDex

Question

After following the instructions mentioned at: https://developer.android.com/studio/build/multidex.html#mdex-gradle

I am getting an error cannot find symbol

Answer 1

Thanks to @Gabe Sechan for the help. I know React Native/JavaScript, kind of clueless about Android/Java, so I simply followed the instructions at https://developer.android.com/studio/build/multidex.html#mdex-gradle, which did not mention any additional imports. I learned to look up the package I needed here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/multidex/MultiDexApplication.html. After adding:

import android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication;

public class MainApplication extends MultiDexApplication implements ReactApplication {
...

App seems to build and run successfully on Android 4.4.4+ devices. On my Samsung Galaxy S3 simulator running 4.3 however, I am getting a crash upon app start: What does WIN DEATH: android.osDeadObjectException mean?, which seems like another issue altogether.