Dexing manually for Netbeans project

Question

I have a NB7 Android project. Unfortunally Pre-dexing stops with heap out of memory. Is there a way to run Pre-dexing manually from command-line for Android SDK R21 to control memory assignment better ?

Answer 1

I don't know anything about netbeans or how to control its predexing behavior, but it's a simple matter to run dx on a jar from the command line

 dx --dex --output=classes.dex blah.jar

Or, since you need to control the memory options

 dx -JXmx1G --dex --output=classes.dex blah.jar

You can find dx at <android-sdk>/platform-tools/dx

On the newer versions of sdk , you can find dx at

<android-sdk>/build-tools/android-<ver>/