Incompatibility with latest background_downloader

[mgilberti-horta]

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Environment

Technology	Version
Flutter version	3.16.0-12.0.pre.19
Plugin version	6.0.0-beta.25
Android version	13

Device information:
Samsung A14 5G

Description

Simply adding background_downloader (7.10.1) import is causing our flutter_inappwebview (6.0.0-beta.25) based app to crash on Android in release mode (debug is working fine on both physical device and emulator).

Expected behavior:
I was expecting it to work properly as in debug mode.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new flutter_inappwebview base app (even examples are fine)
2. Add background_downloader to the pubspec.yaml
3. Add import 'package:background_downloader/background_downloader.dart'; to your main.dart
4. Run in release mode on a physical device or on emulator

Stacktrace/Logcat

[ +45 ms] E/flutter ( 5721): [ERROR:flutter/runtime/dart_vm_initializer.cc(41)] Unhandled Exception: PlatformException(error, java.lang.IllegalStateException: Trying to create a platform view of unregistered type: com.pichillilorenzo/flutter_inappwebview
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at io.flutter.plugin.platform.c0.M(SourceFile:1)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at io.flutter.plugin.platform.c0$a.g(SourceFile:1)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at b2.l$a.c(SourceFile:1)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at b2.l$a.onMethodCall(SourceFile:1)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at c2.i$a.a(SourceFile:1)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at u1.c.k(SourceFile:1)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at u1.c.l(SourceFile:1)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at u1.c.d(SourceFile:1)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at u1.b.run(SourceFile:1)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:958)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:205)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:294)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8177)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:552)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:971)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): , null, null)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): #0 StandardMethodCodec.decodeEnvelope (package:flutter/src/services/message_codecs.dart:651)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): #1 MethodChannel._invokeMethod (package:flutter/src/services/platform_channel.dart:334)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721):
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): #2 ExpensiveAndroidViewController._sendCreateMessage (package:flutter/src/services/platform_views.dart:1081)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721):
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721): #3 AndroidViewController.create (package:flutter/src/services/platform_views.dart:804)
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721):
[ ] E/flutter ( 5721):

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[mgilberti-horta]

It turns out that code shrinking via R8 (enabled by default in release mode) was removing plugin registrations.
To fix it one can disable code shrinking by editing build.gradle:

   buildTypes {
       release {
            shrinkResources false
            minifyEnabled false
            signingConfig signingConfigs.release
       }
   }

or use a properly configured proguard file.

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