
Episode 144: Compilers
Android Developers Backstage
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Is There a Way to Break the Cycles?
The way shrinking off your app works right now is that there's a tool called AEPT that looks at your XML files. And then it generates key rules for your shrinker. So our eight, as part of any compilation that you do with our eight, we get key rules from AEPT. That means that we have to keep the code references. We create a full graph, and your resource has to actually be reachable from some root,. Like in your manifesto in reachable code for it to actually be used.
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