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Thank you for the report and the supplied dump with the reproduction. I can confirm that the NPE is also present on HEAD, and I will look into it.

Quite a few of the class files in the dump has malformed inner-class attribute, where R8 reports e.g.:

Info in /tmp/tmpo67ucguh/program.jar:ofifmwrrhhmodsc/ψξψξψξξ.class:
Malformed inner-class attribute:
	outerTypeInternal: ofifmwrrhhmodsc/ψξψξψξξ
	innerTypeInternal: ofifmwrrhhmodsc/ψξψξψξξ$ψξξψξξξ
	innerName: ψξψξψξξ$ψξξψξξξ

These are ignored, so they should not be the reason for the NPE, but something to also look into.

I will backport this to the 8.0 and 4.0 branches.

Thank you very much for taking a look at this!

Is this fix related to the nullpointer or the malformed inner-class attributes ?

Do you have a separated ticket for it? Could you share it?

Answer to #comment6. This fix only addresses the NPE.

The malformed inner-class attributes is an issue with the input class files, and they where not related to the NPE. You will have to contact the supplier of the library where they are present if you would like to get rid of the "Info" messages (you will have to run ./gradlew --info ... to see them). From what I can see the issue is that the innerName: ψξψξψξξ$ψξξψξξξ should have been innerName: ψξξψξξξ.

I'm also have this same error with zoom in flutter

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:shrinkReleaseRes'.
> Multiple task action failures occurred:
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.ShrinkProtoResourcesAction
      > ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
        Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.ShrinkProtoResourcesAction
      > ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
        Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
   > A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.transforms.ShrinkProtoResourcesAction
      > ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
        Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.

* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 6m 28s
Running Gradle task 'assembleRelease'...                          389.5s
Gradle task assembleRelease failed with exit code 1

zoom_native_sdk: ^0.3.3

Flutter 3.10.5 • channel stable • https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git Framework • revision 796c8ef792 (4 weeks ago) • 2023-06-13 15:51:02 -0700 Engine • revision 45f6e00911 Tools • Dart 3.0.5 • DevTools 2.23.1

java version "17.0.7" 2023-04-18 LTS Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 17.0.7+8-LTS-224) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0.7+8-LTS-224, mixed mode, sharing)

Gradle 7.6.1

Build time: 2023-02-24 13:54:42 UTC Revision: 3905fe8ac072bbd925c70ddbddddf4463341f4b4

Kotlin: 1.7.10 Groovy: 3.0.13 Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.11 compiled on July 10 2021 JVM: 17.0.7 (Oracle Corporation 17.0.7+8-LTS-224) OS: Windows 11 10.0 amd6

Manually updating the .xml files to not have a BOM should be a way to workaround this issue. Most text editors have a way of saving without a BOM.