dex-limit – Tarik Billa

Showing dex method count by package

September 25, 2023 by Tarik

I’ve written a dex-method-counts tool that outputs per-package method counts faster and more accurately than the smali-based tools referenced in JesusFreke’s answer¹. It can be installed from https://github.com/mihaip/dex-method-counts. [1] that script disassembles the .dex and re-assembles it by package, but this means that methods that are referenced by multiple packages are counted twice

Does the Android ART runtime have the same method limit limitations as Dalvik?

June 7, 2023 by Tarik

The issue is not with the Dalvik runtime nor the DEX file format, but with the current set of Dalvik instructions. Specifically, the various method invocation methods, which look like this: invoke-kind {vC, vD, vE, vF, vG}, meth@BBBB B: method reference index (16 bits) You can reference a very large number of methods in a … Read more