App Crashed When I Build A Signed Apk With Jsoup

My android app was crashing when i build a signed apk. The crash was not seen when i did a debug build. The build.gradle file is like this: buildTypes { release {

Solution 1:

setting minifyEnabled to false is not the correct solution, that would disable proguard while building the release version

The reason why setting minifyEnabled is working is because proguard might be obfuscating jsoup. So, you should keep minifyEnabled as true and include these rules for jsoup in your proguard-rules.txt file to prevent the app from crashing :

-keep publicclassorg.jsoup.** {
    public *;
}

Solution 2:

What i did to prevent the app from crashing is that i have made minifyEnabled to false from true in the build.gradle file. In that file i have made the following change.

    buildTypes {
       release {
          minifyEnabled false
          proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
          signingConfig signingConfigs.config
    }
    debug {
        debuggable true
    }
}

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