Below are some choice quotes from the last time this came up almost 1.5 years ago; interesting how the peanut gallery has mellowed over time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321634
> Basically these engineers decided to be really clever, painted themselves into a corner, smashed a hole in the wall so as to escape from said corner, and then bragged about how great they are. -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5322286
> I can't believe an app requires 8M RAM just for method names! - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5323153
> They bloated the app so badly, they would have had to monkey patch the OS to let it run at all -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5323930
> Basically these engineers decided to be really clever, painted themselves into a corner, smashed a hole in the wall so as to escape from said corner, and then bragged about how great they are. -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5322286
Also, the bug that was filed was also referenced: Dexopt fails with "LinearAlloc exceeded" for deep interface hierarchies https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22586