I have downloaded Android Studio Canary 15, and I ...
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Daniele B
04/30/2021, 4:47 PMI have downloaded Android Studio Canary 15, and I get this error.
Is “isShrinkResources” deprecated?
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Michael
04/30/2021, 4:50 PMI couldn't find nything regarding deprecation but the docs say this
Code shrinking with R8 is enabled by default when you set theproperty tominifyEnabled.true
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Daniele B
04/30/2021, 4:52 PMYes, I couldn’t find anything either about isShrinkResource deprecation. But it might be not needed anymore, as you said.
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Michael
04/30/2021, 4:53 PMnope just found more docs saying minify is just for code shringkin the paragraph about resource shrinking still shows it
Michael
04/30/2021, 4:53 PMd
Daniele B
04/30/2021, 4:54 PMyes, that’s why I had added it
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Michael
04/30/2021, 4:54 PMthe examples are all for the groovy DSL which makse this a bit harder to figure out
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tapchicoma
04/30/2021, 5:00 PMit is not available in ApplicationBuildType
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Michael
04/30/2021, 5:01 PMit's also not available in the super types
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tapchicoma
04/30/2021, 5:19 PMSeems you need to use
VariantScope#useResourceShrinker()d
Daniele B
04/30/2021, 6:16 PM@tapchicoma thanks! I am not sure how I should specify that on my release build. Can you provide a snippet?
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tapchicoma
04/30/2021, 6:18 PMno idea, I just found out that it is actually deprecated 🤷♂️
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Daniele B
04/30/2021, 6:19 PMOk 👍