React-native-image-crop-picker: Build Fails on Android - app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug

[dblazeski]

Version

Tell us which versions you are using:

• react-native-image-crop-picker v0.21.1
• react-native v0.55.4

Platform

Tell us to which platform this issue is related

• Android

Steps to reproduce

1. Link the android version react-native link react-native-image-crop-picker

2. Build fails

Attachments

> Task :app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug FAILED
D8: Cannot fit requested classes in a single dex file. Try supplying a main-dex list.
# methods: 69982 > 65536


FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:transformDexArchiveWithExternalLibsDexMergerForDebug'.

More

Looked at the documentation but can't find proguard rules for react-native-image-crop-picker. Any pointers? Thanks

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[eaco-andrew]

Here's how I fixed this for me.

updated android/build.gradle

ext {
    ...
    supportLibVersion = "27.1.0"
    ...
}

added line to android\app\build.gradle

dependencies {
    ...
    implementation 'com.android.support:design:27.1.0'
    ...
}

[piasetskiy]

Try this

android/build.gradle

dependencies {
    implementation ('com.android.support:design:25.3.1') {
        force = true
    }
    implementation ('com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.1.0') {
        force = true
    }
}

[ssilverr]

If it still fails a DEX error, you can try multidex

in android/build.gradle

 defaultConfig { 
        ...
        vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true //image picker
        multiDexEnabled true 
}

This creates multiple DEX files if it can't fit all the dependency references in one file.
link

[dblazeski]

Thanks all,

Tried the suggestions, didn't work :).
I'm not really android dev so it's pretty possible I'm doing something wrong.

Not really keen on testing multidex, enabling it for one package yields me doing something wrong, following online advice, unless you're sure what you're doing, it shouldn't be enabled.