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This issue blocks convenient ways to avoid problems with Layout Inspector and Jetpack Compose (e.g. b/223435818).

In our build we exclude META-INF/*.version files. But these version files are required for Layout Inspector to function with compose. Files are read at runtime so layout inspector knows which version of compose the app is running and launch the corresponding inspector.

Without packagingOptions per buildType it's hard to setup mentioned exclusion only for release builds.

This is supported now.

Here is an example of what to add to your build.gradle file for the use case from comment #1:

androidComponents {
    onVariants(selector().withBuildType("debug")) {
        packaging.jniLibs.keepDebugSymbols.add("**/debugDoNotStrip.so")
    }
}

Here is an example of what to add to your build.gradle file for the use case from comment #4:

androidComponents {
    onVariants(selector().withBuildType("release")) {
        packaging.resources.excludes.add("META-INF/*.version")
    }
}

It's been supported since AGP 7.0.0

The androidComponents should actually be added outside the android block:

android {
   ...
}

androidComponents {
   ...
}