Can't upload Android app to device (stale dexed jars)

Question

I am using Android Studio to develop this app, and today when I tried to upload it to my device to test I got a popup window saying:

Installation fail

Answer 1

In my project I got past this by being more specific about which portions of Google Play Services I was linking with. In particular, I changed

dependencies {
    ...
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:8.4.0'
}

to

dependencies {
    ...
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:8.4.0'
}

in my app module's build.gradle, since all I was really using was the maps API.