When building via App Bundle, Fresco fails to find "libimagepipeline.so"

Description

When launching an Activity that uses Fresco, which has been generated via Android App Bundle, it fails to find “libimagepipeline.so” and crashes the application.

Reproduction

1. Create a sample application that uses Fresco
2. Generate a signed Bundle
3. Using Bundle Tool build the APKs from the Bundle
4. Using Bundle Tool, install the APK on to your device
5. Navigate to Activity where Fresco is initialised
6. Observe crash

Solution

I originally thought this might have been an issue with minify, R8, or Proguard, but I disabled all of those, and still observed the same result when building via App Bundle.

I have tested other components of my app that also use native libraries, but they all operate as expected, only with Fresco struggling to load the respective binary.

A temporary, but not ideal solution I found is disabling splitting of APK’s by abi using the following configuration, but including all the binaries results in a significantly larger APK size.

android {
    // Rest of your configuration here
    
    bundle {
        abi {
            enableSplit false
        }
    }
}

Additional Information

• Fresco version: 1.10.0
• Platform version: Samsung SM-G955F, Android 8.0.0

[nesterov-n]

I have found out an issue in SoLoader lib used by Fresco. I have prepared PR with a fix: facebook/soloader#26 That fix makes fresco works fine with app bundle. I have published the patched version of SoLoader lib. You can use it in your project if you can’t wait till PR is merged.

repositories {
    maven {
        url  "https://dl.bintray.com/nnesterov/maven" 
    }
}

compile('com.facebook.fresco:fresco:1.10.0') {
    exclude group: 'com.facebook.soloader', module: 'soloader'
}
compile("com.avito.android:patched-soloader:0.1.0")

[oprisnik]

We’ve landed the SoLoader fix. We’ll release a new Fresco version soon once the SoLoader version has been released.