Wish IDE/Compiler check if Additional Library Needs Jetify

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MikeSW17

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HI.
Background to request.
Having spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to get https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/compassview-another-compassview.93977/#content
to run. It Always crashed on the Innocent first line:
B4X: 
Activity.LoadLayout("main")
I tried everything I could think of, Including re-installing B4A, Tools and Resources several times. I even spotted and (unnecessarily) renamed the Additional Library name typo (library file name "NewComapassView.jar/.xml" rather than "NewCompassView.jar.xml". I eventually gave Up Trying, and down-hearted

Later while trying to comprehend the purpose of 'Jetify', i opened a recent project - that happened to be NewCompassView". On clicking Jetify menu item, "NewCompassView" appeared as a library to Jetify.
Of course once done, the New Compass App Ran Perfectly.

SO, To save needless time waste and frustration, would it be possible for the IDE or compile/link to detect/report if an Additional Library needs to be Jetified?
 

Erel

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It is technically not possible without trying to jettify each library, which would have a bad impact on performance. As a general rule, don't use libraries that need to be jetified. These are old and unmaintained library. Maintained libraries will always include the jetified version (the non-jetified version is never used).
 

AnandGupta

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Erel said:
As a general rule, don't use libraries that need to be jetified.
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Er... some looks important.

Below is my "jetifier.map"
B4X: 
#Thu Mar 18 22:53:20 IST 2021
exoplayer_desugar.jar=1584850776000
stringfunctions.jar=1424699416000
relinker-1.3.1.aar=1593339516000
byteconverter.jar=1293779870000
ime2.jar=1597822834000
tabhostextras.jar=1396611180000
mysudoku.jar=1423324800000
exoplayer-ui-2.11.3.aar=1584850776000
exoplayer.jar=1593070574000
admanager.jar=1612721318000
exoplayer-smoothstreaming-2.11.3.aar=1584850776000
ahlocale.jar=1383543522815
exoplayer-hls-2.11.3.aar=1584850776000
exoplayer-dash-2.11.3.aar=1584850776000
exoplayer-2.11.3.aar=1584850776000
extension-rtmp-2.11.3.aar=1584850776000
dialogs2.jar=1561094670000
websocket.jar=1587533978000
geocoder.jar=1459218702000
http.jar=1303472324000

exoplayer.jar, ahlocale.jar etc. looks important for development as per my requirement. So what is advised for them ?

Regards,

Anand
 

Sandman

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I imagine it would be possible for us developers to add a custom build action to jetify the libs, in case we are so inclined?

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Erel

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Sandman said:
I imagine it would be possible for us developers to add a custom build action to jetify the libs, in case we are so inclined?
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Not really needed as libraries only need to be jetified once.

AnandGupta said:
exoplayer.jar, ahlocale.jar etc. looks important for development as per my requirement. So what is advised for them ?
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It has no real meaning. ExoPlayer and AHLocale don't need to be jetified.
 
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