Running apps containing large amount of code

Question

Background

It seems some old Android OSs (and maybe even the newest ones) have a limitation on the amount of code each app can hold.

As I\'ve found, the li

Answer 1

The limit is the total number of method references:

• https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7147#c6
• https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=20814#c6

A middle ground between doing nothing and the multi-dex approach described in the FB/Google articles is to use a tool like ProGuard to remove references to unused code at the Java level. See:

• http://proguard.sourceforge.net/
• http://developer.android.com/tools/help/proguard.html