Legacy module not compatible with Gradle 8.0

[fourofspades]

Legacy module not compatible with Gradle 8.0

[mikepenz]

It looks for whatever reason gradle decides to pull in the jvm variant of the core module instead of the android variant.

You can overrule this by doing:

    implementation("com.mikepenz:aboutlibraries-core-android:10.7.0")
    implementation("com.mikepenz:aboutlibraries:10.7.0") {
        exclude group: 'com.mikepenz', module: 'aboutlibraries-core'
    }

[sucicf1]

@DDihanov we are talking about legacy UI but you mentioned compose. The workaround from @mikepenz
implementation("com.mikepenz:aboutlibraries-core-android:10.7.0")
implementation("com.mikepenz:aboutlibraries:10.7.0") {
exclude group: 'com.mikepenz', module: 'aboutlibraries-core'
}
works by me.

[mikepenz]

The crash occurs simply by upgrading gradle without any other changes?

[fourofspades]

Yes, never had a problem until I upgraded to Gradle 8.0. All the versions I tried (including the latest 10.6.3) are perfectly happy on Gradle 7.4

[mikepenz]

Tested this with the sample app which uses Gradle 8.1.1. And it does not run in any problems. (With minifyEnabled enabled)

Any special r8 rule you use?

Also make sure your jetpack dependencies are up2date.

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Can you please provide a sample app to reproduce this problem?

[fourofspades]

Sample java app that has the issue.
(will work in development, but a release build will crash at runtime when the FaB is selected.

See the same behavior with Gradle 8 and 8.1.1

MyApplication.zip

[fourofspades]

Can confirm this workaround is working.

[DDihanov]

FYI I had this issue but after upgrading to 10.8.3 the crash no longer happens:

implementation("com.mikepenz:aboutlibraries-core:10.8.3")
implementation("com.mikepenz:aboutlibraries-compose:10.8.3")

[mikepenz]

Thank you @DDihanov . glad this looks to be resolved with the new release.