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backButton listener not working when minifyEnabled is set to true

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Bug Report

Plugin(s)

@capacitor/app

Capacitor Version

Latest Dependencies:

  @capacitor/cli: 3.5.1
  @capacitor/core: 3.5.1
  @capacitor/android: 3.5.1
  @capacitor/ios: 3.5.1

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/ios: not installed
  @capacitor/cli: 3.5.1
  @capacitor/core: 3.5.1
  @capacitor/android: 3.5.1

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Platform(s)

Android

Current Behavior

backButton handling listener is not working in release build if minifyEnabled is set to true in build.gradle inside app folder

Expected Behavior

backButton listener should function normally in release build even if minifyEnabled is set to true

Code Reproduction

https://github.com/Nikhil1920/back-button-bug-reproduction

Other Technical Details

Bug only occurs when building release android app bundle it does not occur when building APK

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

jcesarmobilecommented, May 10, 2022

It’s still not working as you explain, but if I set minifyEnabled true it no longer alerts, so it’s true that it’s broken Looks like the proguard rules we are using in @capacitor/android package are not being published on npm.

as workaround you can put them in your own progruard file

https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/blob/main/android/capacitor/proguard-rules.pro

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ionitron-bot[bot]commented, Nov 10, 2022

Thanks for the issue! This issue is being locked to prevent comments that are not relevant to the original issue. If this is still an issue with the latest version of Capacitor, please create a new issue and ensure the template is fully filled out.

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