gradle - proguard errors do not reflect -dontwarn

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gradle 1.10 on linux on CLI ./gradlew clean ./gradlew assembleRelease ERROR in stdout... ``` Note: there were 2 references to unknown classes. You should check your configuration for typos. (http://proguard.sourceforge.net/manual/troubleshooting.html#unknownclass) Note: there were 5 unresolved dynamic references to classes or interfaces. You should check if you need to specify additional program jars. (http://proguard.sourceforge.net/manual/troubleshooting.html#dynamicalclass) Warning: there were 106 unresolved references to classes or interfaces. You may need to add missing library jars or update their versions. :proguardRelease FAILED :proguardRelease (Thread[main,5,main]) completed. Took 4.689 secs. FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. ``` I extend an oss package bundled with gradle for release builds ( added jackson.json but not from maven central ). For some reason, proguard is throwing hundreds of 'org.joda.time... class not found' errors despite the following snips: ``` rel…

Accepted Answer

In what file is your "snippet" with the `-dontwarn` flags? It doesn't look like you're ever telling your `build.gradle` file about that proguard configuration.

You have:

```
proguardFile getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt')
```

But you should also have:

```
proguardFile 'your_proguard_config.cfg'
```

so that it will use both the default android configuration and your configuration.

gradle - proguard errors do not reflect -dontwarn

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