[imagepicker] Exception if built in --release mode: Error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroidx/documentfile/provider/DocumentFile;

[boutier]

Hello,

Issue

I have updated Imagepicker on its latest version (3.0.0 / 3.0.1). It worked well in dev mode, but when built with the --release flag, it cease to work.

I patched webpack to re-enable logs in release mode (drop_console: false), and get this one.

• Code:

    const context = Imagepicker.create({
      mode: 'multiple',
    });

    context
      .authorize()
      .then(() => {
        return context.present();
      })
      .then((selection) => { … })
      .catch(function (e: Error) {
        console.error('on select image', e.toString(), e.stack, e.cause);
      });

• Log:

JS: CONSOLE ERROR: on select image Error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroidx/documentfile/provider/DocumentFile; getOrSetHelper(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:2:118868)
JS: 	at getFile(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:2:128579)
JS: 	at fromPath(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:2:139398)
JS: 	at handle(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:2:840987)
JS: 	at onResult(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:2:842335)
JS: 	at invokeTask(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:2:1240087)
JS: 	at onInvokeTask(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:2:1553242)
JS: 	at invokeTask(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:2:1240008)
JS: 	at runTask(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:2:1235405)
JS: 	at invokeTask(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:2:1241184)
JS: 	at ZoneTask.i.useG.invoke(file:///data/data/appid/files/app/vendor.js:...

Investigation

So I have extracted and compared the 2 produced APK. Here are some differences that looks suspicious to me in the META-INF directory.

• Files that does not appear in --release

androidx.cardview_cardview.version
androidx.coordinatorlayout_coordinatorlayout.version
androidx.documentfile_documentfile.version                     # <-- at least this one seems missing for bad reasons
androidx.dynamicanimation_dynamicanimation.version
androidx.legacy_legacy-support-core-utils.version
androidx.localbroadcastmanager_localbroadcastmanager.version
androidx.print_print.version
com.google.android.material_material.version

(These files does not have corresponding entries in MANIFEST.MF.)

• For files that exists in both side, versions does not match

androidx.customview_customview.version has content 1.1.0 in "dev" and 1.0.0 in "release".
androidx.drawerlayout_drawerlayout.version has content 1.1.1 in "dev" and 1.0.0 in "release".

Other informations

Here are some other informations about my config:

package.json extracts

    "@nativescript/core": "~8.6.1",

    "@nativescript/android": "~8.6.2",
    "@nativescript/types": "~8.6.1",
    "@nativescript/webpack": "~5.0.18",

app.gradle

android {
  compileSdkVersion 33
  defaultConfig {
    minSdkVersion 21
    targetSdkVersion 33
    generatedDensities = []
  }
  aaptOptions {
    additionalParameters "--no-version-vectors"
  }
}

AndroidManifest.xml extracts

	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_MEDIA_LOCATION"/>
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES" />
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_MEDIA_VIDEO" />
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" android:maxSdkVersion="32" tools:replace="android:maxSdkVersion" />
	<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" android:maxSdkVersion="29" tools:replace="android:maxSdkVersion" />

	<application
		android:name="com.tns.NativeScriptApplication"
		android:allowBackup="true"
…
		android:requestLegacyExternalStorage="true">

(I first thought it was a permission problem, that's why I have here the old *_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and requestLegacyExternalStorage but I don't think it changed anything. I should probably just revert this!)

Question

I don't really know how these files are generated and what I should try to go forward at this point. Any help appreciated! :-)

[Donkni]

@boutier I'm seeing this as well and would love an update or workaround.

[Donkni]

@boutier I ended up working around this my following the alterations on this page by adding the following to the dependencies in the gradle file.
implementation("androidx.documentfile:documentfile:1.0.1")

[boutier]

Oh, thanks for the workaround!

I admit that I din't found time to dig around this. But I really would like to understand why the versions differ between dev and release mode, and why dependencies are dropped. Maybe is it a more general issue, though: as I mainly test my code with the dev mode… I'm quite afraid about facing unexpected behaviors in prod (release)!