Fix/file usage not working

[rohit9625]

Description (required)

Fixes #6236

What changes did you make and why?

• I added a ProGuard rule to prevent obfuscating file usages related to classes in release variants, as the Gson serialization was silently failing.
• Also, upgraded the lifecycle-runtime dependency version to 2.8.7 because I encountered a build failure due to lint errors after adding the ProGuard rule.

Tests performed (required)

Tested prodRelease on Pixel 6 with API level 34.

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[nicolas-raoul]

Would you mind removing app/src/main/res/values-x-invalidLanguageCode , to allow CI to run? Thanks! 🙂

[rohit9625]

Done 👍

[github-actions]

✅ Generated APK variants!

• 🤖 Download betaDebugAPK
• 🤖 Download prodDebugAPK

[nicolas-raoul]

Thanks!
Actually if obfuscation is a recurrent issue and if it does not bring significant benefits in terms of app size/memory, then I am not against disabling it completely. It might also make some aspects of debugging easier? though are stack trace are currently rather readable.

[rohit9625]

Thanks! Actually if obfuscation is a recurrent issue and if it does not bring significant benefits in terms of app size/memory, then I am not against disabling it completely. It might also make some aspects of debugging easier? though are stack trace are currently rather readable.

I wouldn't prefer that because Obfuscation do reduce the size of the APK and also remove unused code, logs, etc., in the release variant which isn't done then it will result in very bad performance of the app, specifically on low-end devices.