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Thanks for your detailed post.

However, benchmark build type is under configured: at least isProfileable is not set to true for existing build type, probably there's more.

We should set isProfileable = true by default when overriding an existing benchmark build type.

This issue is not about some specific configuration flag, but the general approach of dealing with external configuration. As a developer adopting baseline profiles, it seems extremely risky to me using a custom configuration due to how it's applied under the hood and the fact it may break default configuration.

I agree that is not great but this is a little tricky to do. For custom baseline profile build types we override all the properties. For benchmark I left it open to configure but it's mostly about these 2 properties:

isMinifyEnabled
isShrinkResources

I don't have a way to see if the user is setting them before overriding, so for this reason, I'd prefer not to. I agree with you that some other properties could be set by default to make this easier, i.e.:

isJniDebuggable = false
isDebuggable = false
isProfileable = true

The reason why I mentioned the release signing config in the beginning is because I want to use debug signing config.

In the specific of your issue, i.e. using a debug certificate can you override the benchmark and baseline profile setting? You should be able to do something like:

android {
    buildTypes {
        release { ... }
        debug { ... }
        benchmarkRelease {
            ...
            signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
        }
        nonMinifiedRelease {
            ...
            signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
        }
    }
}