I have downloaded Android Studio Canary 15, and I get this error. Is “isShrinkResources” deprecated?

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[Daniele B]

I have downloaded Android Studio Canary 15, and I get this error.
Is “isShrinkResources” deprecated?

[Michael]

I couldn't find nything regarding deprecation but the docs say this

Code shrinking with R8 is enabled by default when you set the minifyEnabled property to true.

[Daniele B]

Yes, I couldn’t find anything either about isShrinkResource deprecation. But it might be not needed anymore, as you said.

[Michael]

nope just found more docs saying minify is just for code shringkin the paragraph about resource shrinking still shows it

[Michael]

https://developer.android.com/studio/build/shrink-code.html#shrink-resources

[Daniele B]

yes, that’s why I had added it

[Michael]

the examples are all for the groovy DSL which makse this a bit harder to figure out

[tapchicoma]

it is not available in ApplicationBuildType

[Michael]

it's also not available in the super types

[tapchicoma]

Seems you need to use VariantScope#useResourceShrinker() according to this message.

[Daniele B]

@tapchicoma thanks! I am not sure how I should specify that on my release build. Can you provide a snippet?

[tapchicoma]

no idea, I just found out that it is actually deprecated 🤷‍♂️

[Daniele B]

Ok 👍