"ClassNotFoundException: androidx.exifinterface.media.ExifInterface" only on some devices

[pdalfarr]

Description

Recently I start to receive some bug report for some of my apps regarding a missing androidx.exifinterface.media.ExifInterface class.

The odd thing is that this seems only to happens for some specific devices.

I think this exception occurs at Android Fresco 's pipeline initialization phase, i.e. Fresco.initialize(...)

A. Trying to solve the problem in blind mode - does not work :/

As I don't really know what's going on, I did the following changes in my gradle config:

1. In my /gradle/libs.versions.toml have added

   [versions]
   exifinterface = "1.3.7"
   ...
   [libraries]
   androidx-exifinterface = { module = "androidx.exifinterface:exifinterface", version.ref = "exifinterface" }
   

2. and also added ,in the build.gradle file of my library project, this:

   api libs.androidx.exifinterface
   

B. Maybe using R8/Proguard

Not sure.. and which Proguard statements should I use ..??

Something like this :

-keep class androidx.exifinterface.media.ExifInterface { *; }
-keepclassmembers class androidx.exifinterface.media.ExifInterface { *; }

C. Begging for help

• Did any of you encountered this issue?
• If yes, how did you solved it?

Note:

FYI, the stack trace, which occurs in the "FrescoIoBoundExecutor" thread

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: androidx.exifinterface.media.ExifInterface
 [wrapped] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Failed resolution of: Landroidx/exifinterface/media/ExifInterface;
        at c6.b.a(b.java:8)
        at v5.f.l(f.java:482)
        at com.facebook.imagepipeline.producers.LocalFetchProducer.d(LocalFetchProducer.java:162)
        at com.facebook.imagepipeline.producers.SwallowResultProducer.run(SwallowResultProducer.java:12)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
        at com.google.android.material.datepicker.DateFormatTextWatcher.lambda$new$0(DateFormatTextWatcher.java:72)
        at androidx.activity.ComponentActivity$onBackPressedDispatcher$2$$ExternalSyntheticLambda1.run(ComponentActivity.java:0)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:919)

Reproduction

According to bug report, I can confirm that the issue does happen on Samsung SM-T595 gta2xllte Android 10
I cannot reproduce on my side: I do not have this hardware.

Solution

Maybe Proguard / R8 rule could help.. or not?

Additional Information

• Fresco version:
  fresco = "3.2.0"
  api libs.fresco
  api libs.fresco.animated.webp
  api libs.fresco.webpsupport
  api libs.fresco.animated.gif

• Platform version: Samsung SM-T595 gta2xllte Android 10