Dexcount Gradle Plugin

A Gradle plugin to report the number of method references in your APK, AAR, or java module on every build. This helps you keep tabs on the growth of your app, with an eye to staying under the 65,536 method-reference limit, and avoiding the headache of eliminating methods or enabling multidex. When applied, dexcount-gradle-plugin will create one task per Android variant that you can execute to produce method-count reports. The tasks are named according the variant, in the format “count${variant}DexMethods”. In a typical app, that means there will be tasks named countDebugDexMethods and countReleaseDexMethods. Historically, these counting tasks were run by default on every build; this continues to be true for projects using versions of Android Gradle Plugin from 3.4.0 up until 4.1.0. Beginning with 4.1.0, this is no longer the case, and method counts must be manually requested.