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Description
In the "Shrink your Resources" documentation, in the section "Customize which resources to keep" (see
"Save this file in your project resources, for example, at res/raw/my.package.keep.xml. The build does not package this file into your app."
In the next paragraph, there is a reference to a resource file named "my.package.build.variant.keep.xml".
The documentation refers to file names that contain invalid characters. The period character is not allowed in a resource file name. File-based resource names must contain only lowercase a-z, 0-9, or underscore.
Using the file name in the documentation results in the following build error:
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:mergeDebugResources'.
> /Users/username/AndroidStudioProjects/MyApplication/app/src/main/res/raw/my.package.keep.xml: Error: '.' is not a valid file-based resource name character: File-based resource names must contain only lowercase a-z, 0-9, or underscore
Proposed Fix
Replace the period '.' with an alternative character, such as underscore '_' (e.g. res/raw/my_package_keep.xml). Alternatively, the period '.' character can be removed from the file names (e.g. res/raw/mypackagekeep.xml).
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