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Component used: androidx.startup:startup-runtime
Version used: 1.1.1
Devices/Android versions reproduced on: Not Applicable

Running ./gradlew lintDebug gives me an Error since one of my Initializer<T> classes is not referenced inside my AndroidManifest.xml.

However, the way I have it setup, is that I have in a small module, an initializer with the shape of

abstract class DatadogInitializer : Initializer<Unit> {
  override fun create(context: Context) { ... }
}

And inside my :app module, I have the implementation of that abstract class, since there I can reference all other Initializer instances for the dependencies(): List<Class<out Initializer<*>>> function, since the :app module sees everything. That implementation class looks something like

class DatadogInitializerImpl : DatadogInitializer() {
  override fun dependencies(): List<Class<out Initializer<*>>> {
    return listOf(TimberInitializer::class.java, KoinInitializer::class.java)
  }
}

I have this setup this way, so that DatadogInitializer can stay in its own module and can use internal values from there, without having access to where TimberInitializer and KoinInitializer exist.

Finally my AndroidManifest.xml does reference the implementation like this:

<provider
    android:name="androidx.startup.InitializationProvider"
    android:authorities="${applicationId}.androidx-startup"
    android:exported="false"
    tools:node="merge">
    <meta-data
        android:name="com.package.DatadogInitializerImpl"
        android:value="androidx.startup" />
</provider>

Now I understand that it may be a bit tricky for lint to figure this out, but it's giving me a false positive in any case and I need to figure out a way to ignore this lint error. Optimally it should be able to pick this case up.