Crashlytics plugin causes mergeReleaseResources to never be up to date

[matejdro]

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[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your environment

• Android Studio version: Android Studio Hedgehog | 2023.1.1 RC 3
• Firebase Component: Crashlytics gradle plugin
• Component version: 2.9.9

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce:

1. Download and extract Project.zip
2. Run ./gradlew mergeReleaseResources
3. Run ./gradlew mergeReleaseResources again. Note that the task is not up to date even though it was just ran a second ago.
4. Comment out id("com.google.firebase.crashlytics") line from app/build.gradle.kts
5. Perform steps 2-3 again.
6. Note that task is up to date now. Crashlytics plugin was causing it to rerun every time.

[argzdev]

Hey @matejdro, thanks for reaching out. Let me consult with our engineers and get some feedback.

[mrober]

@matejdro we have a prerelease of the next major version of the Crashlytics Gradle plugin, you can find it in https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/issues/5733. One of the improvements is better behaving Gradle tasks.

I tested running the mergeReleaseResources task repeatedly and get "4 actionable tasks: 4 up-to-date" even if obfuscation is enabled. Closing this issue for now since the prerelease resolves this. Please let me know if this doesn't resolve the problem for you on the other issue.