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

If you're using Android studio 2.0 preview , disable the instant run .

All credit and thanks go for the life saver https://stackoverflow.com/a/34192979/1413998

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

I have tried followings

• increasing the RAM
• increasing the storage of emulator
• removing and adding emulator
• invalidate cache and restart

but nothing work.

However, deleting the actual emulator file did trick for me.

You can find the emulator files at this location.

C:\Users\<username>\.android\avd

Thanks.

Answer 4

I discovered that the dex file was getting larger than the buffer, even though it contained less than 64k methods. Then I enabled ProGuard and it helped a lot reducing the dex file size.

THe application dex-method-counts helps a lot to debug your dex file, by checking not only the number of methods, but to what package they belong

Answer 5

I have also encountered this problem in Android Studio, from version 2.0 Preview 6 all the way up to 2.0 Beta 3 and none of the solutions mentioned here worked for me.

Turned up it had nothing to do with Instant Run. All I had to do was to increase the AVD's Internal Storage until the following notification disappeared. I also had to perform a data wipe after changing the values.

Answer 6

I disabled Instant run for this project, and problem solved.

Maybe it's a bug in the instant run feature of Android studio 2.0 preview.

Instant Run is a new feature introduced in Android Studio 2.0.

ps: in case you don't find Instant run, its in:

Android Studio --> Preferences --> Build, execution, deploy --> Instant run.

or you can search for it in the preferences tab.