@ianlake, I wanted to share with you that 3 of the dependencies on the Android project I am working on introduced issues wit R8/proguard in their latest builds: Google Places, SQLDelight and MSAL. It is frustrating you find out only when trying to put together a production build to upload to Google Play. Are there any efforts being made to help library and/or app developers catch this issues earlier?
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Born and raised in Argentina, now officially a Kiwi. Android Developer since 2010.
@jk Yeah, gamepad support!
@ianlake That looks interesting. Pro guard rules is not something I usually need to write for my projects, and writing them to compensate for them being missing from a third party library is hard to figure out and then maintain. I'm not sure how many I accumulated overtime and now I'm hesitant to remove because I'm not sure they are needed or not.
@ianlake Thanks for the advice. I will look into baseline profiles and revise the release workflow.
@ianlake I have found an issue in SQL delight's tracker acknowledging the issue, and it has happened in other occasions with different libraries. In the case of MSAL, they released a patch 7.0.1 that solved some of it, but introduced new R8 issues. My point is that this happens in projects from respectable organizations and I am wondering if there is something missing.
@jk I didn't know about Bubble. I've just joined bbs.geminispace.org. It's awesome!
@dymaxion @quoll This makes me think of advocates of the small internet who propose the issue stems from how permissive and ever-expanding the web is in terms of features and capabilities and that an alternative to that is having more constrained protocols that make the implementation of clients easier and expose a smaller attack surface in terms of security and privacy. The Gemini protocol looked promising when it came out, but it won't go mainstream anytime soon sadly.
@ianlake It seems there are some R8/Proguard issues that need to be ironed out before moving forward with this upgrade: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/346808608
@jw I also prefer to (re)read the documentation just when it's relevant. 