Component used: Startup

Version used: 1.0.0-alpha1

Devices/Android versions reproduced on: Does not matter

This is a follow-up of closed issue #159561780. Indeed the last comment seems to be true - internal class causes lint error while public does not. However, core of the issue still occurs and the same workaround works. Despite that initializers classes are public they are shrunk by R8.

Maybe some optimization is causing that? AGP: 4.2.0-alpha02 proguard full mode enabled proguard-android-optimize.txt used

Using the following Initializer class (located in library module, listed in its manifest, not added as dependency of any other initializer):

class ReportingInitializer : Initializer<Unit> {

    override fun create(context: Context) {
        //some code
    }

    override fun dependencies() = emptyList<Class<out Initializer<*>>>()
}

If the following proguard/R8 rule is applied then it works:

-keep class * extends androidx.startup.Initializer {
   <init>();
}