Recently I came across an issue when using Google Cast SDK with R8(Proguard) and Shrinkresources. My debug build seems to work well, but release build compiles and installs… But crashes as soon as it opens. :thinking:
Let’s look into the crash logs.
Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Drawable com.sample.application:drawable/mr_button_light with resource ID #0x7f08018a
Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: File res/drawable/mr_button_light.xml from drawable resource ID #0x7f08018a
at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.loadDrawableForCookie(ResourcesImpl.java:876)
at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.loadDrawable(ResourcesImpl.java:659)
at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawableForDensity(Resources.java:906)
at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:845)
at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:820)
at androidx.mediarouter.app.MediaRouteButton$b.doInBackground(:1)
...
Caused by: android.view.InflateException: Class not found x
at android.graphics.drawable.DrawableInflater.inflateFromClass(DrawableInflater.java:224)
at android.graphics.drawable.DrawableInflater.inflateFromXmlForDensity(DrawableInflater.java:141)
at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXmlInnerForDensity(Drawable.java:1402)
at android.graphics.drawable.Drawable.createFromXmlForDensity(Drawable.java:1361)
at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.loadXmlDrawable(ResourcesImpl.java:939)
at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.loadDrawableForCookie(ResourcesImpl.java:862)
at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.loadDrawable(ResourcesImpl.java:659)
at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawableForDensity(Resources.java:906)
at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:845)
at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawable(Resources.java:820)
at androidx.mediarouter.app.MediaRouteButton$b.doInBackground(:1)
...
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Didn't find class "x" on path: DexPathList[[zip file "/data/app/com.sample.The problem - R8 assumes these mr_*resources (media router) are unused and are skipped to be included with the build. Hence, while accessing them via reflection in the code by the Cast SDK it fails.
How can we fix it?
As stated in the Android developers documentation
res/raw/keep.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:keep="@drawable/mr_*" />The above xml tells the gradle plugin not to shrink resources of this kind.
How can we verify this?
run ./gradlew clean bundleStageRelease –info » output.txt
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Search around the file, if skip unsed is been shown for mr_ files.
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Now go back add the keep.xml file and repeat the same.
I hope it helps!