GraalVM properties file in Android artifact

[G00fY2]

Integration

sentry-android

Build System

Gradle

AGP Version

8.0.2

Proguard

Enabled

Version

6.28.0

Steps to Reproduce

Build Android project which uses Sentry.

Expected Result

META-INF in build artifact (APK) should only contain required files.

Actual Result

Sentry adds META-INF/native-image/io.sentry/sentry/native-image.properties file.

Not really a "bug" but since we like to keep our artifact clean would be nice if this file could be excluded from being packaged when used with Android.

Update: Looks like this can't be easily done. At least AGP seems to not support exclude rules from libraries. Even Google itself run into this limitation: ohs-foundation/android-fhir#534 (comment)

So maybe something we can just exclude on client side or maybe a FR for the Sentry Android Gradle Plugin.

[romtsn]

hi @G00fY2 indeed this should not be bundled within apk, we'll fix that 👍

[markushi]

Let's also double check for any other meta-inf files our SDK is adding.

[romtsn]

FYI I've looked into this and I think there's not much we can do from the android sdk side, as we can't control what's packaged into the final apk, but we can still do 2 things as suggested:

• Do this automatically from the Gradle plugin when applied to an android app
• Provide a troubleshooting page to show how users can exclude this from their side via android.packagingOptions.excludes for those who don't use the gradle plugin

[G00fY2]

Thanks for looking into. In the end it's a minor optimization. Maybe a short notice in the docs is sufficient. E.g. coroutines (similar case) does it like this: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines?tab=readme-ov-file#avoiding-including-the-debug-infrastructure-in-the-resulting-apk

Not sure if it is worth adding additional logic into the Gradle plugin.