Chrome crash with "NoClassDefFoundError" exception--device compatibility

[msahad]

In some devices (Samsung tab 3) Chrome app cannot be opened. Every time it crashes with following exception.

org.chromium.chrome.browser E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main Process: org.chromium.chrome.browser, PID: 15079 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.chromium.chrome.browser.provider.ChromeBrowserProvider$1 at org.chromium.chrome.browser.provider.ChromeBrowserProvider.onCreate(ChromeBrowserProvider.java:248) at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1591) at android.content.ContentProvider.attachInfo(ContentProvider.java:1562) at android.app.ActivityThread.installProvider(ActivityThread.java:5221) at android.app.ActivityThread.installContentProviders(ActivityThread.java:4815) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4698) at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1600(ActivityThread.java:172) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1365) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:146) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5598) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1283) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1099) at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

[JackyAndroid]

duplicate #2 #7

[msahad]

Instant run is already disabled. App crash even in release build. It happens only in some models like samsung tab 2 and some LG devices. In all other devices working fine.

[uplusplus]

add the follow line:

    MultiDex.install(this);

to

org.chromium.chrome.browser.ChromeApplication#attachBaseContext