Is it even possible to test minified build now?

[dsvoronin]

Hello community!
After upgrade to AGP 8.x we've noticed this warning:

BuildType 'debug' is both debuggable and has 'isMinifyEnabled' set to true.
Debuggable builds are no longer name minified and all code optimizations and obfuscation will be disabled.

But it's impossible to run instrumented tests with debuggable=false, right?

Am I missing something? Is there a way to test minified and obfuscated builds now?

[ZacSweers]

Sorry I'm not seeing how this is related to Keeper?

[dsvoronin]

Sorry I'm not seeing how this is related to Keeper?

I see Keeper purpose as to assist with running UI tests over minified builds.

My assumption was that if Keeper updated to recent AGP, than there is a known workaround

[ZacSweers]

You're not really being very clear, I don't understand what keeper's relationship to this is. We have pretty clear docs on how to set up a test build type for use with keeper.

[dsvoronin]

You're not really being very clear, I don't understand what keeper's relationship to this is. We have pretty clear docs on how to set up a test build type for use with keeper.

Yep, you're right. I'll try to explain more in the answer, as I already found answers.
Hope this research would be helpful here, if you don't think so, feel free to remove the topic

[dsvoronin]

So first of all, my assumption was wrong, and instrumented test WORKS over build with debuggable=false just fine.
If you know any limitations, please let me know.

In case you want to debug failed test on the same build, which is, I believe, a fair requirement, than you have to do couple of tricks. Example:

RedMadRobot/gradle-infrastructure@7e70dc2
Thanks @osipxd .

You also need to change BuildConfig.DEBUG value

Some history:

• minification and obfuscation is not working since AGP 7.2.0, is was silently(no release notes mention) disabled as not intended behavior