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AGP 3.6.0-beta05 If you apply Android library plugin and then try to enable multidex for the library tests, there is no way to do without adding multidex as dependency to the main library dependencies.

If you follow https://developer.android.com/studio/build/multidex

You end up adding:

android {
    defaultConfig {
        ...
        multiDexEnabled true
    }
    ...
}

and

dependencies {
    ...
    androidTestImplementation("androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1")
}

Sadly, this still adds multidex to main runtime ./gradlew foo:dependencies

releaseRuntimeClasspath - Runtime classpath of compilation 'release' (target  (androidJvm)).
+--- androidx.annotation:annotation:1.1.0
+--- androidx.fragment:fragment:1.1.0
|    +--- androidx.annotation:annotation:1.1.0
|    +--- androidx.core:core:1.1.0
...
\--- androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.0