R8 issues on AGP 7

[luckspt]

Hi,

I'm creating this issue in case it helps someone in the future 😃.

I was trying to get agent15 to compile on my android project that is still on AGP 7, however I was getting the following error when building (on mergeExtDexDebug):

AGPBI: {"kind":"error","text":"java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "String.length()" because "<parameter1>" is null","sources":[{"file":"/Users/lucks/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/tech.kwik/agent15/3.0/5e91f5b503bdb623bb71c6bd69699c423184c5d7/agent15-3.0.jar"}],"tool":"D8"}

I ended up solving this by using R8/D8 version 8+ while still on AGP 7 (as seen here).
On settings.gradle:

pluginManagement {
	buildscript {
		repositories {
			mavenCentral()
			maven {
				url = uri("https://storage.googleapis.com/r8-releases/raw")
			}
		}
		dependencies {
			classpath("com.android.tools:r8:8.1.44")
		}
	}
}

Thanks for the library!

[ptrd]

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. And your help for fellow-developers ;-).