google-api-services-analytics causing a cascade of NoClassDefFoundError errors

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Hi there,

I wanted to report that we had updated our Android Studio/Gradle app from using 
"com.google.apis:google-api-services-analytics:v3-rev88-1.18.0-rc" to the 
latest and it caused 4+ 3rd party libraries to throw hard to track down 
NoClassDefFoundError errors.  Reverting to "v3-rev88-1.18.0-rc" made them all 
go away.  We spent about 2 days tracking this down.

Thanks!
Jacob

Name of affected component: google-api-services-analytics

Steps to reproduce issue:
1. Update to latest google-api-services-analytics
2. Use Crasylytics, android-async-http, Urbanairship, etc.
3. Build project

Expected output:
No crashes.

Actual results:
There are crashes.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ja...@atomicmgmt.com on 5 Mar 2015 at 10:00