Android Studio improperly marks specified version as out-of-date. [257726238]

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ga...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Nov 6, 2022 03:52PM

Build: AI-213.7172.25.2113.9123335, 202209300301,

AI-213.7172.25.2113.9123335, JRE 11.0.13+0-b1751.21-8125866x64 JetBrains s.r.o., OS Linux(amd64) v5.17.0-1020-oem, screens 1920.0x1080.0, 2560.0x1440.0

AS: Dolphin | 2021.3.1 Patch 1
Kotlin plugin: 213-1.7.20-release-for-android-studio-AS6777.52
Android Gradle Plugin: 7.3.1
Gradle: 7.4
Gradle JDK: version 11.0.13
NDK: from local.properties: (not specified), latest from SDK: (not found)
CMake: from local.properties: (not specified), latest from SDK: (not found), from PATH: (not found)

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In my build.grade file, I have specified a number of dependencies. In order to ensure that builds don't break when transitive dependencies change, I'm pinning the version of packages to build with. For example, I have:

"implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.5.1!!'"

What is strange is that Android Studio highlights this statement stating:
"A newer version of androidx.appcompat:appcompat than 1.5.1!! is available: 1.5.1"

It appears that the UI is doing a textual string comparison rather than a semantic version comparison. The pinned version is the latest available and should not be highlighted for action.

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ku...@google.com <ku...@google.com> Nov 7, 2022 10:41PM

Assigned to an...@google.com.

gh...@google.com <gh...@google.com> #2Nov 14, 2022 06:30PM

Here is the stacktrace:

java.lang.VerifyError: Verifier rejected class WN: android.app.Notification$Style WN.h(android.app.Person, android.app.PendingIntent) failed to verify: android.app.Notification$Style WN.h(android.app.Person, android.app.PendingIntent): [0x4]  can't resolve returned type 'Reference: android.app.Notification$Style' or 'Unresolved Reference: android.app.Notification$CallStyle' (declaration of 'WN' appears in base.apk!classes4.dex)
	at Tj.<init>(SourceFile:17)
	at kT1.<init>(SourceFile:23)
	at aL1.<init>(SourceFile:293)
	at bh4.get(SourceFile:1606)
	at cL1.a(SourceFile:29)
	at cL1.e(SourceFile:17)
	at s1i.getValue(Unknown Source:17)
	at dL1.a(SourceFile:11)
	at RQ1.b(Unknown Source:2)
	at EQ1.execute(SourceFile:15)
	at lU1.handleMessage(SourceFile:18)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
	at N52.dispatchMessage(SourceFile:7)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:237)
	at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)

Unfortunately, I can't share the dex2oat logs for this as I'm running into this problem on Android 11 emulator and I don't have a rooted Android 11 device on-hand.

gh...@google.com <gh...@google.com> #3Nov 14, 2022 06:37PM

Reassigned to gh...@google.com.

Thanks for the report. Can you share the APK failing and give suggestions to force the error such that I can see the entire logcat on device. The outline is looking correct so I believe the error is someplace else and logcat will show that.

xo...@google.com <xo...@google.com> #4Nov 15, 2022 10:19AM

I shared the APK and instructions to reproduce over email. Let me know if you have any trouble reproing the crash.

gh...@google.com <gh...@google.com> #5Nov 16, 2022 12:09AM

Marked as fixed.

Thank you for the dump and information. Turns out that behavior of the verifier changed on Android 11 and 12 but was reverted again. I am working on a fix that should be easy to merge to the 4.0 branch.

Note that the verification error is actually also easy to create by manual outlining, but our pattern just emphasize it.

Issue 257726238