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Plugins load via DexClassLoader, so R8 sees no reference to what they call. Only plugin-api was protected, by the existing -keep on com.itsaky.androidide.plugins.**; the other three modules merged into the published plugin-api coordinate (common, eventbus-events, idetooltips) had no rule and survived only because the host happens to use them.

GeneratePluginApiKeepRules emits one -keep per class from the fat jar assemblePluginApiFatJar already builds, so the rules are exactly the published ABI and cannot drift as classes move. The provider goes into Variant.proguardFiles for release variants, which lets Gradle infer the dependency for every consumer: R8 and lint both read that list, and wiring only R8 with dependsOn fails validation in a real release build. Debug variants are untouched so they never pull in the fat jar. Package wildcards were not an option: :common spans 21 packages and shares com.itsaky.androidide.utils with :idetooltips and :app.

Plugins load via DexClassLoader, so R8 sees no reference to what they
call. Only plugin-api was protected, by the existing -keep on
com.itsaky.androidide.plugins.**; the other three modules merged into
the published plugin-api coordinate (common, eventbus-events,
idetooltips) had no rule and survived only because the host happens to
use them.
GeneratePluginApiKeepRules emits one -keep per class from the fat jar
assemblePluginApiFatJar already builds, so the rules are exactly the
published ABI and cannot drift as classes move. The provider goes into
Variant.proguardFiles for release variants, which lets Gradle infer the
dependency for every consumer: R8 and lint both read that list, and
wiring only R8 with dependsOn fails validation in a real release build.
Debug variants are untouched so they never pull in the fat jar. Package
wildcards were not an option: :common spans 21 packages and shares
com.itsaky.androidide.utils with :idetooltips and :app.
Measured on v8 debug at 28e00f1: all 420 ABI classes and every
callable member already survive R8 today, so this ticket's reported
breakage does not reproduce. Verified in the shipped dex and on device,
where a probe plugin loaded and resolved 420/420 ABI classes against an
R8-shrunk host. The rules cost 80 bytes of dex and leave the defined
method count unchanged; they turn an accident into a guarantee. R8
itself saves 18.34 MB of dex (157.0 -> 138.6 MB, 36 -> 16 dex files).
Also verified in CI by building both release variants from this change
with publishing disabled: v7 and v8 green.
Side effect: assemblePluginApiFatJar hardcodes the v8Release variants of
the three add-on modules, so a v7 release build now also compiles those.

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  • Generate explicit R8 -keep rules for every class in the published plugin API fat JAR.
  • Validate the fat JAR with sentinel classes from plugin-api, common, eventbus-events, and idetooltips.
  • Apply generated rules to release variants through Variant.proguardFiles.
  • Keep debug variants independent of the fat JAR.
  • Replace global -dontshrink with targeted rules for kotlin.** and kotlinx.coroutines.**.
  • Preserve all 420 ABI classes and required ADFA-5156 call sites during shrinking.
  • Reduce output to 10 DEX files totaling 87.82 MiB, compared with 15 files totaling 115.96 MiB with -dontshrink.
  • Configure SSH access in the debug workflow for release asset downloads.
  • Build the V8 release APK and search the release output directory.
  • Risk: Device verification was not performed.
  • Risk: Fat-JAR assembly uses v8Release variants of add-on modules, which causes v7Release builds to compile those modules.
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The build script assembles and validates a plugin API fat JAR, generates ProGuard keep rules from its classes, and applies them to release variants. Global shrinking is replaced with targeted Kotlin and Kotlin coroutines keep rules. The workflow configures SSH access, downloads release assets, and builds the V8 release APK.

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Plugin API keep rules

Layer / File(s)Summary
Assemble plugin API fat JAR
app/build.gradle.kts
A named Jar provider combines class outputs from the plugin API, common, eventbus-events, and idetooltips modules.
Generate and validate keep rules
app/build.gradle.kts
GeneratePluginApiKeepRules rejects empty or incomplete archives, checks sentinel classes, and writes rules for discovered classes.
Wire release rules
app/build.gradle.kts, app/proguard-rules.pro
Release variants consume the generated rules. Targeted rules preserve kotlin.** and kotlinx.coroutines.** classes while allowing other shrinking.
Build and locate the V8 release APK
.github/workflows/debug.yml
The workflow configures key-only SSH access, downloads release assets, assembles the V8 release APK, and locates it under the release output path.

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Keeps Kotlin safe through build-night.
The fat JAR shines, rules bloom bright,
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Description check✅ PassedThe description clearly explains the generated R8 keep rules, fat JAR input, release-variant wiring, and debug-variant exclusion.
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app/build.gradle.kts (1)

456-462: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Bind fatJar to the Jar task output.

Line 458 and Line 460 duplicate the task name and archive path configured by assemblePluginApiFatJar at Lines 496-505. If the archive name or destination changes, this task can consume a stale JAR or fail input validation.

Keep the TaskProvider<Jar> returned by the tasks.register<Jar> call. Use it for both dependsOn and fatJar.set(taskProvider.flatMap { it.archiveFile }). Move this registration after the Jar task declaration if required. Gradle supports provider-based task output wiring and validates producer-consumer ordering. (docs.gradle.org)

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- dependsOn("assemblePluginApiFatJar")+ dependsOn(pluginApiFatJar)- fatJar.set(layout.buildDirectory.file("plugin-maven-repo-staging/plugin-api-1.0.0.jar"))+ fatJar.set(pluginApiFatJar.flatMap { it.archiveFile })
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In `@app/build.gradle.kts` around lines 456 - 462, Retain the TaskProvider<Jar>
returned by the assemblePluginApiFatJar registration, then use that provider for
both dependsOn and fatJar via flatMap { it.archiveFile } in the
GeneratePluginApiKeepRules registration. Move the keep-rules registration after
the Jar task if necessary, eliminating the duplicated archive path and filename.
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In `@app/build.gradle.kts`:
- Around line 456-462: Retain the TaskProvider<Jar> returned by the
assemblePluginApiFatJar registration, then use that provider for both dependsOn
and fatJar via flatMap { it.archiveFile } in the GeneratePluginApiKeepRules
registration. Move the keep-rules registration after the Jar task if necessary,
eliminating the duplicated archive path and filename.

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I think we need to do something about -dontshrink too

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Three findings from a review of the diff. All medium — none block the mechanism, which is sound (the Variant.proguardFiles wiring is the right AGP 8.8.2 API, and the emitted rule syntax checks out against a real plugin-api-1.0.0.jar). They're about the rules being unexercised today, and two ways the task can silently produce wrong or empty output.

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Review feedback on #1701.
fatJar read a hardcoded plugin-maven-repo-staging/plugin-api-1.0.0.jar path,
decoupling the task from assemblePluginApiFatJar's archiveFileName. Bumping the
published coordinate and missing that line would leave the stale
plugin-api-1.0.0.jar on disk (the staging dir is never cleaned), so the task
would emit keep rules for the old ABI and the release build would stay green.
It now takes archiveFile straight from the task provider, which also makes the
explicit dependsOn redundant.
The task also had no guard on its own output, though its whole purpose is a
guarantee. The fat jar merges four hardcoded AGP intermediate paths with
DuplicatesStrategy.EXCLUDE, so a dropped from(...) or an AGP layout change
yields a jar missing a whole module with no signal: roughly 300 :common rules
would vanish silently. Added a non-empty check plus one sentinel class per
merged module. A minimum-count floor would be arbitrary, and package prefixes
cannot stand in for modules since :common and :idetooltips both contribute
classes to com.itsaky.androidide.utils.
The registration moves below assemblePluginApiFatJar so it can reference that
provider, so most of this diff is the reindent the move forces.
The generated plugin-ABI keep rules could not do any work. -dontshrink made R8
a pass-through, so d5ea3a4's "all 420 ABI classes survive R8" result held
because R8 removed nothing, not because the rules worked.
ADFA-5156 reached for -dontshrink to protect one library and disabled shrinking
across the whole app to do it; the targeted fix its own description proposed
(keep kotlin.** and kotlinx.coroutines.**) was never applied. Applying it now
restores dead-code removal everywhere else.
Measured with :app:minifyV8ReleaseWithR8 and :app:minifyV7ReleaseWithR8, same
machine, only this flag changing. v7 and v8 are identical since the dex is
ABI-neutral:
-dontshrink shrinking on
dex files 15 10
dex total 115.96 MiB 87.82 MiB
classes defined 102,068 80,637
plugin ABI classes 420/420 420/420
ADFA-5156 call sites 12/12 12/12
kotlin.** holds at 3702 -> 3703 classes and kotlinx.coroutines.** at 895 while
everything else drops 43%, so the stdlib survives because of these keeps rather
than because R8 sat idle. -dontobfuscate and -dontoptimize stay, leaving the
ADFA-3604 metadata-corruption workaround untouched.
This corrects two claims in d5ea3a4's message: the dex saving is 28.14 MiB,
not 18.34 MB, and its ABI survival figure was measured against a pass-through.
Verified by dex-scanning both variants for the 420 published ABI classes and for
the kotlin.* call sites ADFA-5156 listed, resolving through superclasses and
super-interfaces because the stdlib facades inherit these members rather than
declaring them (ArraysKt.maxOrNull lives on ArraysKt___ArraysKt, Channel.send on
SendChannel). Not verified on device: that needs a full release APK and a
physical arm device.
ADFA-5164 narrows kotlin.** to a frozen subset later, at which point plugins
bundle whatever falls outside it.

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