Calling installed application method in another application

Question

I want to create an application that extracts text from .docx and .pptx files. Am using poi libraries. When I tried compiling it, it throws error of having too many methods.

In order to bypass this error (cause I need this poi libraries to effectively achieved this), after so many search on the internet, I observed that I can only do this by splitting the application into two applications. But the two applications will need to communicate among them. Especially, I would like to call some methods from one of the application in the second one. Can someone help me on how to achieve this?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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There are several ways of doing this.

Check the answer on the stack overflow link.

android communication between two applications

But if you are getting

When I tried compiling it, it throws error of having too many methods.

while compiling your application, then you can add the following in build.gradle in order to bypass the error

android {
    compileSdkVersion 21
    buildToolsVersion "21.1.0"

    defaultConfig {
        ...
        minSdkVersion 14
        targetSdkVersion 21
        ...

        // Enabling multidex support.
        multiDexEnabled true
    }
    ...
}

dependencies {
  compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.0'
}

Please refer the documentation here

https://developer.android.com/tools/building/multidex.html

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered Feb 22 '15 at 21:11

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is there a reason you cannot update the ADT version? Also Multidex lib is a part of Android support library. – nkz Feb 22 '15 at 21:19
OK. Am gonna update it. If it works, I mark the question as answered. Thanks. – Green Onyeji Feb 22 '15 at 21:21

Calling installed application method in another application

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