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Android Implementing Designs for Android Adding Push Notifications from Parse.com Setting Up Push Notifications

Posted by tshuutheniemvula
tshuutheniemvula
7,251 Points

Parse Push Notification Android TOP LEVEL Exception

I'm getting a gradle build exception and I can't quite figure out where it arises from. I think it's something to do with the dependencies.

The gradle error is:

UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL EXCEPTION: com.android.dex.DexException: Multiple dex files define Lcom/parse/ParseAuthenticationProvider; at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.readSortableTypes(DexMerger.java:594) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.getSortedTypes(DexMerger.java:552) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeClassDefs(DexMerger.java:533) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.mergeDexes(DexMerger.java:170) at com.android.dx.merge.DexMerger.merge(DexMerger.java:188) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.mergeLibraryDexBuffers(Main.java:439) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.runMonoDex(Main.java:287) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:230) at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:199) at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:103)

Anyone had this issue?

2 Answers

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Hiya,

A quick Google brought me to this post - worth a look!

Steve.

tshuutheniemvula
tshuutheniemvula
7,251 Points

Hi again Steve! Hope all's well! It was a dependency issue but rather with the bolts Jar file included in the Parse SDK, it has to be placed inside the libs folder and that did the trick for me. Adding the compile statements to build file as instructed in the post was also fix but then it rendered the SectionPagerAdapater useless as it also uses the support library. Thanks anyway!

Luke Liem
Luke Liem
6,367 Points
Luke Liem
Luke Liem
6,367 Points

I got exactly the same error after following the video tutorial. I looked up Stackoverflow and most of the posts said this build error has to do with dependencies error in the build.gradle, whereby certain jar files have been compiled twice in a row.

The problem with the current TreeHouse Video Tutorial is as followed. It first instructs us to copy the Parce jar files into the lib folder, then it asks us to follow the PARSE Tutorial to add the following dependencies into our project build.gradle:

dependencies { compile 'com.parse.bolts:bolts-android:1.+' compile 'com.parse:parse-android:1.+' }

However, my build.gradle originally have the following dependencies

dependencies { compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:22.2.1' compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:7.0.1' }

After adding the new dependencies, it becomes

dependencies { compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:22.2.1' compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:7.0.1' compile 'com.parse.bolts:bolts-android:1.+' compile 'com.parse:parse-android:1.+' }

Since these two Parse jar files are already in the lib folder, they are now being compiled twice.

The simple fix is to simply revert back to the old dependencies: dependencies { compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar']) compile 'com.android.support:support-v13:22.2.1' compile 'com.jakewharton:butterknife:7.0.1' }