D8/R8 Support

[NunoBem]

Describe the solution you'd like
After migrating our app from DX/Proguard to D8/R8, the app had several problems. Contacting AppCenter chat, I was informed that it isn't supported and to open a new feature request.

R8 became the default code shrinker for Android and should be supported.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Building the apk on our Visual Studio, results in a working app. But breaks our CI/CD.

[winnie]

Hi @NunoBem - thanks for the feature request. App Center diagnostics only supports deobfuscation with the ProGuard at the moment. We don't have immediate plans to support D8/R8 but I will monitor this request for interest.

(Note: similar request #458)

[filipkowicz]

D8/R8 is becoming standard in Android world. @winnieli1208 please consider supporting it soon

[brcinho]

Since R8 is becoming de-facto standard from Android side, and is supposed to replace proguard. In recent versions of Android Studio and gradle it is enabled by default. I suppose that tells you that there will be interest for this.

Why the need to explicitly show the interest with comments and up-votes?

[NunoBem]

Contacting AppCenter chat, I was informed that it isn't supported and to open a new feature request.

@brcinho I suppose microsoft is driven by community feedback too and defines it's priorities.

[brcinho]

@NunoBem I completely agree with you. The problem occurs when someone is shutting down the service to push their own service but they didn't match the quality, pro-activeness and feature set of the previous service. Then they can not rely that product roadmap depends on the community feedback solely, they need to show some initiative and pro-activeness on their own.

[matthiaswenz]

@NunoBem Were your problems with R8/D8 related to only building your app on App Center or also diagnosing crash reports? I'll look into the conversations on why it might have failed for you, but feel free to share more details here or with me personally (email is in bio) if needs be - at least in general it should work for App Center Build.

[brcinho]

@ranterle Related to inability for app center to de-obfuscate the stack trace based on the mapping.txt uploaded.

[brcinho]

#458

[NunoBem]

What's the feedback about this? @winnieli1

[winnie]

Hi all! Our team is starting this very soon. No exact ETA yet but we expect to have this done in a few
weeks. Thanks for the patience! We'll post here with updates.

[winnie]

We added support for this last week (see #458). Thanks!