Fix IncompatibleClassChangeError when hardening Compose apps with --k…#186
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Root cause
With
--keep-classes,splitDexre-partitions each dex with dexlib2 (read →write), splitting classes into a separate "keep" dex and reorganizing the
remaining dex. This changes the dex membership/type tables of Compose classes
and breaks ART's cross-dex linking of interface default-method calls (e.g.
DrawScope), causingIncompatibleClassChangeError.Without
-K, dexes are not re-partitioned (only clinit injection + byte-levelmethod extraction, both of which preserve class layout), so Compose works fine.
Fix
Skip splitting entirely for any dex that contains "keep-in-place" classes
(currently
Landroidx/compose/):DexUtils.dexContainsKeepInPlace(File)detects such dexes.AndroidPackage.extractDexCodeskipssplitDexfor them; they still gothrough method extraction (matched classes are skipped as before), keeping
the original class layout intact.
-Kstartupoptimization.
The prefix list (
KEEP_IN_PLACE_PREFIXES) is easy to extend if otherframeworks hit the same issue.