exclude session-replay from sdk, if not using session replay

[thinkocapo]

Problem Statement

I have an end user telling me that if he doesn't use session replay for the React Native Sentry SDK, then the sentry sdk still brings in sentry-android-replay. Isn't it an easy win, to exclude that?

Reduce the App Size

https://linear.app/getsentry/issue/ANDROID-197/exclude-sentry-android-replay-if-session-replay-is-not-used

Solution Brainstorm

exclude it

Workaround (doesn't work)

User tries to manually remove it via updating his gradle stuff, but then sentry-rn fails to compile because it expects the session-replay sub-dependency

[linear]

JAVA-173 exclude session-replay from sdk, if not using session replay

[androideveloper]

Hey!

I was trying to remove it inside gradle file where sentry sdk is added with the following code

exclude group: "io.sentry", module: "sentry-android-replay"

It removed the sdk but then the build failed as rn-sentry has this class which expects the session replay native dependency RNSentryReplayBreadcrumbConverter

[androideveloper]

So there are 2 issues here:

• sentry android shouldn't by default include session-replay sdk
• react-native-sentry shouldn't rely on session-replay sdk by default